
Hartwig Derenbourg
'Hartwig Derenbourg' (
17 June 1844 -
1908) was an
Orientalist.
He was born in
Paris, son of scholar
Joseph Derenbourg. He was educated at
Göttingen and
Leipzig. Subsequently he studied
Arabic at the
Ecole des Langues Orientales. In 1879 he was appointed professor of Arabic, and in 1886 professor of Muslim Religion, at the
École des Hautes Études in Paris. He collaborated with his father in the great edition of
Saadia and the edition of
Abu al-Walid, and also produced a number of important editions of other Arabic writers. Among these are:
★ ''Le Dinan de Nabiga Dhobyani''
★ ''Le Livre de
Sibawaih'' (2 vols., Paris, 1881-1889)
★ ''Chrestomathie élémentaire de l'Arabe littéral'' (in collaboration with Spiro, 1885; 2nd ed., 1892)
★ ''Ousama ibn Mounkidh, un emir syrien'' (1889)
★ ''Ousama ibn Mounkidh, preface du livre du baton'' (with trans., 1887)
★ ''
Al-Fakhri'' (1895)
★ ''Oumdra du Gimen'' (1897), a catalogue of Arabic MSS. in the
Escorial (vol. i., 1884).
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