Theodor Wilhelm Ahlwardt
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Theodor Wilhelm Ahlwardt
Theodor Wilhelm Ahlwardt, a German orientalist, born at Greifswald, July 4, 1828. He is the son of the philologist and Hellenist Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt (1760-1830), and has been since 1861 professor of oriental languages at the Greifswald university. He is a high authority on Arabic literature and history.
His principal original work is Ueber Poesie und Poetik der Araber (Gotha, 1856).
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