Georg Pilder’s Arabisches Lexicon of 1772– The Oldest Known Comprehensive Arabic-German Dictionary Rediscovered

In 1772, the Moravian Protestant Georg Pilder (1716‒1793) finished his work on an Arabic-German-Italian dictionary with the title Arabisches Lexicon. This dictionary, which has so far escaped scholarly attention and survives in a single manuscript copy, represents the earliest comprehensive Arabic-G...

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Auteur principal: Mauder, Christian (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: De Gruyter 2018
Dans: Der Islam
Année: 2018, Volume: 95, Numéro: 2, Pages: 524-548
Sujets non-standardisés:B Lexicography Ottoman Egypt Missionary history History of Arabic Studies Coptic Church Christian Arabic
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
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Résumé:In 1772, the Moravian Protestant Georg Pilder (1716‒1793) finished his work on an Arabic-German-Italian dictionary with the title Arabisches Lexicon. This dictionary, which has so far escaped scholarly attention and survives in a single manuscript copy, represents the earliest comprehensive Arabic-German lexicographic work known to scholarship. Based primarily on Pilder’s experiences as a missionary in Cairo, it includes valuable material on diglossia and everyday language use in 18th-century Cairo. The article discusses Pilder’s biography against the background of Moravian activities in the Middle East, sheds light on when, why and based on which materials he composed his dictionary and studies how Pilder’s authorial intentions are reflected in the work’s content and structure. It moreover addresses the question of the dictionary’s relevancy in the contexts of missionary history, the history of Arabic Studies and contemporary linguistic research.
ISSN:1613-0928
Contient:In: Der Islam
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/islam-2018-0033