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Joseph Derenbourg
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Joseph Derenbourg

جوزيف ديرنبورغ

Notable figure 1811–1895 · 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. 260–261 · Second source: The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), s.v. «Derenburg (Derenbourg)»

From Germany; worked in France

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Revised the 2nd edition of al-Hariri's Maqamat (1847–1851)

Biography

Born in Mainz, he studied under Georg Wilhelm Freytag, settled in Paris in 1838, and taught Semitics at the École pratique des hautes études from 1877. He revised and supplemented de Sacy's edition of al-Hariri's Maqamat (Paris 1847–1851), with a preface by Joseph Toussaint Reinaud, and published the Fables of Luqman (1850). With his son Hartwig Derenbourg he published in Arabic the grammatical treatises of Abu l-Walid ibn Janah of Cordoba (1880) and his Kitab al-Lumaʿ (1886).