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Joseph Aumer

يوزف أومر

Notable figure 1835–1922 · Source: Johann Fück, Tarikh harakat al-istishraq (Die arabischen Studien in Europa), trans. ʿUmar Lutfi al-ʿAlim, 2nd ed., Dar al-Madar al-Islami, Beirut 2001, p. 196 حاشية 1; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 175 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 116382473: Aumer, Joseph (18 Apr 1835 – 28 Apr 1922), librarian

Field: Manuscript cataloguing

Affiliation

Cataloguer of the Munich Arabic manuscripts (1866)

Biography

A librarian at Munich, he described its Arabic manuscripts in Die arabischen Handschriften der K. Hof- und Staatsbibliothek in München (Munich 1866), a volume of over five hundred pages forming the Arabic part of the library's manuscript catalogue.