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See also:MICHAEL See also:JAN DE See also:GOEJE (1836—1909) , Dutch orientalist, was See also:born in See also:Friesland in 1836 . He devoted himself at an See also:early See also:age to the study of See also:oriental See also:languages and became especially proficient in Arabic, under the guidance of See also:Dozy and Juynboll, to whom he was afterwards an intimate friend and colleague . He took his degree of See also:doctor at See also:Leiden in 1860, and then studied for a See also:year in See also:Oxford, where he examined and collated the Bodleian See also:MSS. of See also:Idrisi (See also:part being published in 1866, in collaboration with R . P . Dozy, as Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne) . About the same See also:time he wrote Memoires de l'histoire et de la geographic orientales, and edited Expugnatio regionum . In 1883, on the See also:death of Dozy, he became Arabic See also:professor at Leiden, retiring in 1906 . He died on the 17th of May 1909 . Though perhaps not a teacher of the first See also:order, he wielded a See also:great See also:influence during his See also:long professoriate not only over his pupils, but over theologians and eastern administrators who attended his lectures, and his many See also:editions of Arabic texts have been of the highest value to scholars, the most important being his great edition of See also:Tabari . Though entirely averse from politics, he took a keen See also:interest in the municipal affairs of Leiden and made a See also:special study of elementary See also:education . He took the leading part in the See also:International See also:Congress of Orientalists at See also:Algiers in 1905 . He was a member of the Institut de See also:France, was awarded the See also:German Order of Merit, and received an honorary doctorate of See also:Cambridge University . At his death he was See also:president of the newly formed International Association of See also:Academies of See also:Science . Among his See also:chief See also:works are Fragmenta historicorum Arabicorum (1869—1871); Diwan of Moslim See also:ibn al-Walid (1875); Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum (1870—1894); See also:Annals of Tabari (1879—1901); edition of Ibn Qutaiba's See also:biographies (1904); of the travels of Ibn Jubaye (1907, 5th vol. of Gibb Memorial) . He was also the chief editor of the See also:Encyclopaedia of See also:Islam (vols. i.-iii.), and contributed many articles to See also:periodicals . He wrote for the 9th and the See also:present edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica . |
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