Friedrich Dieterici


Friedrich Heinrich Dieterici was a German orientalist and historian.

Biography

He studied at the universities of Halle and Berlin, traveled extensively in the East, and in 1850 was appointed associate professor of Arabic literature at the University of Berlin.
He won particular distinction by his researches in the Arabic language and literature. A lengthy list of his published works include:
As language study aids, he published Chrestomathie Ottoman and Arabisch-Deutsches Handwörterbuch zum Koran und Thier und Mensch vor dem König der Genien.
In later years, he focused his energies in the field of Arabic philosophy, translating the philosophical and psychological works of Al-Farabi into German. He also made the treatises of the Ikhwan as-Safa accessible. In 1882 he published Die sogenannte Theologie des Aristoteles : aus arabischen Handschriften.