Georg Freytag

Template:Short description Template:Lead too short Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag (19 September 1788 – 16 November 1861) was a German philologist.

Background

Freytag was born in Lüneburg. He studied philology and theology at the University of Göttingen, where from 1811 to 1813 he worked as a theological tutor. In the latter year he accepted an appointment as a sub-librarian at Königsberg. In 1815 he became a chaplain in the Prussian army, and in that capacity visited Paris.Template:Sfn

On the proclamation of peace (Treaty of Paris (1815)), Freytag resigned his chaplaincy, and returned to his investigations of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish languages, studying at Paris under Silvestre de Sacy. In 1819 he was appointed to the professorship of oriental languages at the recently founded University of Bonn,<ref name=DB>Freytag, Georg Wilhelm @ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie</ref> a post he maintained up until his death in 1861.Template:Sfn

Published works

Freytag's principal work was the acclaimed Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (Halle, 1830–1837), an abridgment of which was published in 1837.Template:Sfn<ref>HathiTrust Digital Lexicon Arabico-Latinum</ref> The lexicon was an improved and enlarged edition of an earlier work by Jacobus Golius.<ref name=DB/><ref name=AD>ADB:Freytag, Georg Wilhelm @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie</ref> Other significant writings by Freytag include:

• Selecta ex Historia Halebi, 1819; selections of Ibn al-Adim's history of Aleppo.
• Hamasae Carmina cum Tebrisii scholiis integris by Abu Tammam, 1828–1852 – edition of Arabic songs (2 volumes).
• Darstellung der arabischen Verskunst, 1830 – a treatise on Arabic versification.
• Kurzgefasste Grammatik der hebräischen Sprache, 1835 – a compendium of Hebrew grammar.
• Arabum proverbia; vocalibus instruxit, latine vertit, 1838–1843 – Arabic proverbs (3 volumes). (Translation, original by Meidani, who died 1124<ref>Iran: A Chronological History p. 119</ref>)
• Einleitung in das Studium der arabischen Sprache, 1861 – Introduction to the study of Arabic language.<ref name=DB/><ref name=AD/>

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External links

• WorldCat Identities Most widely held works by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Freytag.