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Paul de Lagarde
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Paul de Lagarde

باول دي لاغارد

Notable figure 1827–1891 · 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. 254–255 · Second source: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie and Neue Deutsche Biographie, s.v. «Lagarde, Paul de»

Field: Semitic philology

Affiliation

Edited Pedro de Alcalá's Arabic grammar and lexicon (1883)

Biography

Born in Berlin, he held the Oriental chair at Göttingen from 1869, succeeding Ewald. He republished Pedro de Alcalá's two books on Andalusian Arabic, grammar and lexicon (1883), wrote on the formation of nouns in Aramaic, Arabic and Hebrew (1889), and edited the four Gospels in Arabic from a Vienna manuscript (1864).