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Georg Hoffmann

غيورغ هوفمان

Notable figure 1845–1933 · 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. 254 · Second source: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, catalogue record: Bar ʿAli, Syrisch-arabische Glossen, ed. Georg Hoffmann (Kiel 1874)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Editor of half of Bar ʿAli's Syriac-Arabic lexicon (1874)

Biography

Professor of Oriental languages at Kiel, where he succeeded Theodor Nöldeke. He edited the first half of Ishoʿ bar ʿAli's Syriac-Arabic lexicon, from Alaf to Mim, from a Gotha manuscript (Kiel 1874); Richard Gottheil published the rest. The author was a ninth-century physician.