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Karl Heinrich Schier

كارل هاينريش شير

Notable figure d. 1869 · Source: C. Siegfried, «Schier, Karl Heinrich», Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 31 (1890), through Deutsche Biographie; al-Istishraq al-Faransi fi al-Maghrib al-ʿArabi (doctoral thesis, CERIST copy), p. 449 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, catalogue record: Grammaire arabe, par Charles Schier (Dresden and Leipzig: Arnold, 1849)

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Author of a Grammaire arabe (1849); editor of Luqman

Biography

An Arabist in Dresden who lived by private teaching. He published the Fables of Luqman in Arabic with a French version (1831; again 1839), wrote a Grammaire arabe in French (Dresden and Leipzig 1849; again 1862) that follows de Sacy and Ewald, and a lithographed edition of Abu al-Fidaʾ's Geography (1846).