Heinrich Thorbecke

Heinrich Thorbecke.

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.

Biography

He studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Leipzig University, where he was a pupil of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer. In 1873, he was appointed an associate professor at Heidelberg University, then relocated to the University of Halle in 1885, where he attained a full professorship in 1887.

Works

• 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

• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Thorbecke, Heinrich" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
• Reynolds, Francis J., ed. (1921). "Thorbecke, Heinrich" . 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.

External links

• Adalbert Merx (1894). "Thorbecke, Andreas Heinrich" . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 38. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 115–117.