GUSTAV WEIL
\ɡˈʌstav wˈa͡ɪl], \ɡˈʌstav wˈaɪl], \ɡ_ˈʌ_s_t_a_v w_ˈaɪ_l]\
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A German Orientalist and historian; born at Sulzburg, Baden, April 25, 1808; died at Freiburg in Breisgau, Aug. 30, 1889. He was appointed professor of Oriental languages in the University of Heidelberg, 1861. He wrote: "The Poetry of the Arabs" (1837); a learned "History of Mohammed the Prophet" (1843); "Historico-critical Introduction to the Koran" (1844); "Biblical Legends of the Mussulmans" (1845); "History of the Khalifs" (5 vols., 1846-62); "History of the Islamitic People from Mohammed to the time of the Sultan Selim" (1866). He made the first German translation of the "Thousand Nights and a Night" (4 vols., 1837-41).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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