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Hermann (Hayyim Zevi) Reckendorf

حاييم هرمان ريكندورف

Notable figure 1825–1875 · Source: Reckendorf, Hermann, Jewish Encyclopedia (1906); Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 1, al-Bahnasi, p. 269 · Second source: Arabic-L: Hebrew translations of the Quran, Linguist List (2001)

Field: Qur'an translation

Affiliation

First printed Hebrew translation of the Qur'an (1857)

Biography

A German Jew born at Trebitsch in Moravia, he studied the Semitic languages, settled in Leipzig (1856) and later lectured at Heidelberg. In Leipzig in 1857 he published a Hebrew translation of the Qur'an from the Arabic, Al-Quran o ha-Miqra, with a preface on pre-Islamic Arabia and the life of the Prophet. He is not the grammarian Hermann Reckendorf (1863–1924).