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Pieter Antonie van der Lith
Image: Anna Gildemeester (1902); Icones Leidenses 296, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Pieter Antonie van der Lith

بيتر أنطوني فان دير ليث

Notable figure 1844–1901 · 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. 222 · Second source: Biographical entry on DBNL: «Mr. Pieter Antonie van der Lith»

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Buzurg ibn Shahriyar's ʿAjaʾib al-Hind (1883–1886)

Biography

Born in Utrecht, he took his doctorate there (1867) and became a professor at Leiden. He edited the Arabic text of Buzurg ibn Shahriyar's ʿAjaʾib al-Hind, sailors' tales of the Indian Ocean, with Marcel Devic's French translation (Leiden 1883–1886), with much help from Michael Jan de Goeje.