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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 281 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAUER  , a

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town of Germany, in the Prussian province of
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Silesia, 13 M. by
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rail S. of Leignitz, on the Wtithende
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Neisse . Pop . (1900), 13,024 . St Martin's (
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Roman Catholic) church
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dates from 1267-1290, and the Evangelical church from 1655 . A new town-hall was erected in 1895-1898 . Jauer manufactures leather, carpets, cigars, carriages and gloves, and is specially famous for its sausages . The town was first mentioned in 1242, and was formerly the capital of a principality em-bracing about 1200 sq. m., now occupied by the circles of Jauer,
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Bunzlau, Loweberg, Hirschberg and Schonau . From 1392 to 1741 it belonged to the kings of Bohemia, being taken from Maria Theresa by Frederick the
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Great . Jauer was formerly the prosperous seat of the Silesian
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linen trade, but the troubles of the
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Thirty Years' War, in the course of which it was burned down three times, permanently injured this . See Schonaich, Die alte Furstentumshauptstadt Jauer (Jauer, 1903) . JAUHART (
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ABU NASR ISMAeIL
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IBN 1;IAMMAD UL-JAUHARI) (d . 1002 or 1010), Arabian lexicographer, was born at Farab on the
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borders of Turkestan .

He studied

language in Farab and Bagdad, and later among the
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Arabs of the
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desert . He then settled in
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Damghan and afterwards at Nishapur, where he died by a fall from the roof of a house . His great
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work is the Kitab us-Sabah fil-Lugha, an Arabic
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dictionary, in which the words are arranged alphabetically according to the last letter of the root . He himself had only partially finished the last recension, but the work was completed by his pupil, Abu Ishaq Ibrahirn ibn Salih ul-Warraq . An edition was begun by E . Scheidius with a Latin
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translation, but one
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part only appeared at Harderwijk (1776) . The whole has been published at Tebriz (1854) and at Cairo (1865), and many abridgments and Persian
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translations have appeared; cf . C . Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Literatur (
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Weimar, 1898), i . 128 seq . (G . W .

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