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Werner Caskel

فيرنر كاسكل

Notable figure 1896–1970 · Source: Caskel, Werner, TDV Islam Ansiklopedisi; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 17, al-Zalimi, p. 103 · Second source: R. B. Serjeant, review of Gamharat an-nasab, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 31/3 (1968), pp. 616–617

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Edited Ibn al-Kalbi's Jamharat al-nasab; early Arabic poetry

Biography

A German and pupil of August Fischer, he wrote his doctoral thesis on fate in early Arabic poetry (1926) and his habilitation on the Ayyam al-ʿArab (1931). Dismissed under the Nazis (1938), he then held the chair of Oriental philology at Cologne (1948–1964). With G. Strenziok he published the Jamharat al-nasab of Hisham ibn Muhammad al-Kalbi (Leiden 1966).