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GEORG FREYTAG

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 212 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREYTAG  WILHELIMI See also:FRIEDRICH (1788–1861), See also:German philologist, was See also:born at See also:Luneburg on the 19th of See also:September 1788 . After attending school he entered the university of See also:Gottingen as a student of See also:philology and See also:theology; here from 1811 to 1813 he acted as a theological See also:tutor, but in the latter See also:year accepted an See also:appointment as sub-librarian at See also:Konigsberg . In 1815 he became a See also:chaplain in the Prussian See also:army, and in that capacity visited See also:Paris . On the See also:proclamation of See also:peace he resigned his chaplaincy, and returned to his researches in Arabic, See also:Persian and See also:Turkish, studying at Paris under De Sacy . In 1819 he was appointed to the professorship of See also:oriental See also:languages in the new university of See also:Bonn, and this See also:post he continued to hold until his See also:death on the 16th of See also:November 1861 . Besides a compendium of See also:Hebrew See also:grammar (Kurzgefasste Grammatik der hebriuschen Sprache, 1835), and a See also:treatise on Arabic versification (Darstellung der arabischen Verskunst, 1830), he edited two volumes of Arabic songs (Hamasae carmina, 1828–1852) and three of Arabic See also:proverbs (Arabum proverbia, 1838–1843) . But his See also:principal See also:work was the laborious and praiseworthy See also:Lexicon Arabicolatinum (See also:Halle, 1830-1837), an abridgment of which was published in 1837 .

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