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Julius Ruska

يوليوس روسكا

Notable figure 1867–1949 · Source: Ruska, Julius, Neue Deutsche Biographie 22 (2005), Claus Priesner, Deutsche Biographie; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 3, al-Matwari, pp. 202, 231–232 · Second source: Ruska, Julius, Schuh's Annotated Bio-Bibliography, Mineralogical Record

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Affiliation

The Arabic Stone Book; al-Razi's Sirr al-asrar in German

Biography

A German, a teacher of mathematics and science in Heidelberg, he qualified in Semitic philology (1911). He published the Stone Book attributed to Aristotle from an Arabic manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris (1912) and put al-Razi's Kitab sirr al-asrar into German (1935, 1937). From 1927 he directed an institute for the history of science in Berlin.