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Salomon Munk

سالومون مونك

Notable figure 1803–1867 · Source: Munk, Salomon, Jewish Encyclopedia (1906) · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Munk, Salomon (1803-1867)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Edited the Arabic text of the Guide with a French version

Biography

Born at Gross Glogau (today Głogów, Poland), he studied Arabic with Freytag at Bonn and settled in Paris (1828). From 1838 he catalogued the Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic manuscripts of the Bibliothèque nationale, and bought Arabic manuscripts for it in Cairo. He published the Arabic text of Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed with a French translation and notes in three volumes (1856–66), finishing after he had lost his sight, and wrote on the Hebrew grammarians, among them Ibn Janah. He became professor at the Collège de France (1864).