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Johann Georg Nissel

يوهان جورج نيسل

Notable figure 1623–1662 · Source: Johannes Georgius Nisselius, ECARTICO, University of Amsterdam; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 13, Zanati, p. 21 · Second source: Historia de Abrahamo ex Alcorano, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Leiden printer of Arabic and Ethiopic texts and two suras

Biography

A German from the Rhine Palatinate, he worked as a printer and publisher at Leiden (1654–1662). At Elzevier he brought out New Testament epistles in Arabic and Ethiopic with a Latin version (1654), the suras of Abraham and al-Hijr (14 and 15) in Arabic with three Latin versions (1655), and the Song of Songs in Ethiopic with Arabic (1656).