Andreas Heinrich Thorbecke (14 March 1837 in Meiningen – 3 January 1890 in Mannheim) was a German Arabic scholar. His studies were dedicated mainly to the poetry of the Bedouin and the history of Arabic.
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Biography
editHe studied at the universities of Munich and Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer. In 1873 he was appointed an associate professor at the University of Heidelberg, then relocated to Halle in 1885, where he attained a full professorship in 1887.[1]
Works
edit- Antarah, ein vorislamitischer Dichter (Life of Antarah, the Pre-Islamite Poet, 1867).
- Al-Harīri's Durrat-al-gawwas (1871); edition of Al-Hariri.
- Al-A'schā's Lobgedicht auf Mahammed (Al Ashâ's Song of Praise to Mohammed, 1875)
- Ibn Duraid's Kitāb al-malāhin (1882); edition of Ibn Duraid.
- Die Mufad-dali-jāt (The Mufaddaaliyyat, 1885).
- Mihail Sabbag's Grammatik der arabischen Umgangssprache in Syrien und Aegypten (M. Sabbâg's Grammar of Conversational Arabic in Syria and Egypt, 1886).
References
edit- Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- Reynolds, Francis J., ed. (1921). Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company. This source gives 1887 as the date of his appointment to Halle and doesn't mention Heidelberg. .
- ^ Thorbecke, Andreas Heinrich at Neue Deutsche Biographie
External links
edit- Adalbert Merx (1894), "Thorbecke, Andreas Heinrich", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 38, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 115–117