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See also:JOSEPH See also:DERENBOURG (1811-1895) , Franco-See also:German orientalist . He was a considerable force in the educational revival of Jewish See also:education in See also:France . He made See also:great contributions to the knowledge of Saadia, and planned a See also:complete edition of Saadia's See also:works in Arabic and See also:French . A large See also:part of this See also:work appeared during his lifetime . He also wrote an Essai sur l'histoire et la geographie de la See also:Palestine (See also:Paris, 1867) . This was an See also:original contribution to the See also:history of the See also:Jews and Judaism in the See also:time of See also:Christ, and has been much used by later writers on the subject (e.g. by Schtirer) . He also published in collaboration with his son Hartwig, Opuscules et traites d'Abou-'l-Walid (with See also:translation,188o); Deux Versions hebraiques du livre de Kalildh et Dimnah (1881), and a Latin translation of the same See also:story under the See also:title Joannis de See also:Capua directorium vitae humanae (1889) ; Commentaire de Maimonide sur la Mischnah Seder Tohorot (See also:Berlin,1886-1891); and a second edition of S. de Sacy's Seances de Ilariri . He died on the 29th of See also:July 1895, at See also:Ems . His son, HARTWIG See also:DERENBOURG (1844-1908), was See also:born in Paris on the 17th of See also:June 1844 . He was educated at See also:Gottingen and See also:Leipzig . Subsequently he studied Arabic at the Ecole See also:des Langues Orientales . In 1879 he was appointed See also:professor of Arabic, and in 1886 professor of See also:Mahommedan See also:Religion, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris . He collaborated with his See also:father in the great edition of Saadia and the edition of See also:Abu-1 - See also:Wad, and also produced a number of important See also:editions of other Arabic writers . Among these are Le Diwdn de Ndbiga Dhobyani; Le Livre de See also:Sibawaihi (2 vols., Paris, 1881—1889); Chrestomathie elenten`taire de l'arabe litteral (in collaboration with Spiro, 1885; 2nd ed., 1892); Ousdma See also:ibn Mounkidh, un emir syrien (1889); Ousdma ibn Mounkidh, See also:preface du livre du bdton (with trans., 1887); Al-Fdkhri (1895); Oumdra du Gemen (1897), a See also:catalogue of Arabic See also:MSS. in the See also:Escorial (vol. i., 1884) . |
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