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Franz Woepcke

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Notable figure 1826–1864 · Source: Woepcke, Franz, Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Encyclopedia.com; Dirasat Istishraqiyya, no. 3, al-Matwari, p. 233 · Second source: Klaus Karttunen, Persons of Indian Studies: Woepcke

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Affiliation

Edited Omar Khayyam's Algebra and al-Karaji's Fakhri

Biography

A German from Dessau, he studied Arabic at Bonn under Freytag and Gildemeister (from 1848) and worked in Paris from 1850. He published Omar Khayyam's Algebra (Paris 1851) and selections from al-Karaji's Fakhri (1853), and died while preparing an edition of al-Biruni.