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Frants Buhl
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Frants Buhl

فرانتس بول

Notable figure 1850–1932 · 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. 321 · Second source: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (lex.dk), «Frants Buhl»

From Denmark; worked in Germany

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Ibn al-Hajib's al-Shafiya (1878); Qur'an selections (1921)

Biography

Born in Copenhagen, he learned Arabic from August Ferdinand Mehren. His doctorate (1878) was a thesis on Arabic grammar, translating and annotating excerpts of Ibn al-Hajib's al-Shafiya, with attention to pausal forms and the spelling of alif and hamza. He taught Old Testament at Copenhagen and then Leipzig (1890–1898), then succeeded Mehren in the Copenhagen chair of Semitic-Oriental philology. He translated selections of the Qur'an into Danish in chronological order (1921).