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Gustav Moritz Redslob

غوستاف موريتس ريدسلوب

Notable figure 1804–1882 · Source: Redslob, Gustav Moritz, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Deutsche Biographie; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 13, Zanati, pp. 29–30 · Second source: Coranus Arabice, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Printed the Qur'an after Flügel's recension (1837)

Biography

A German from Querfurt, he taught at Leipzig (associate professor 1834) and then as professor of philosophy and biblical philology at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg (from 1841). He became known for his edition of the Qur'an after Flügel's recension (1837), and argued that Dhu al-Qarnayn is Cyrus.