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Matthias Friedrich Beck

ماتياس فريدريش بيك

Notable figure 1649–1701 · Source: Beck, Matthias Friedrich, authority record, Bibliothèque nationale de France; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 13, Zanati, p. 21 · Second source: Specimen Arabicum, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

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Affiliation

Printed suras 30 and 48 in Arabic with Latin (1688)

Biography

A German pastor at Augsburg who worked on Oriental languages. There he printed the suras of Rome and Victory (30 and 48) in Arabic, set in Hebrew letters, with a Latin version and notes (1688), and he published the Aramaic paraphrase of Chronicles with a Latin translation (1683).