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Christian Ravius (Raue)

كريستيان رافيوس

Notable figure 1613–1677 · Source: Raue, Christian, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 27 (1888), Deutsche Biographie; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 13, Zanati, p. 21 · Second source: Christian Ravis, catalogue no. 78, History of Science Museum, Oxford

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Printed the opening suras in Arabic with Latin (1646)

Biography

A German from Berlin, he travelled to Constantinople and Smyrna collecting manuscripts for Ussher (from 1639) and taught Oriental languages at Utrecht (1643), Amsterdam (1645), Uppsala (1650) and Frankfurt an der Oder (1672). In Amsterdam (1646) he printed the opening of the Qur'an in Arabic with a Latin version, and he put books 5–7 of Apollonius's Conics into Latin from an Arabic manuscript (1669).