Weil, GUSTAV, orientalist (1808-89), was of Jewish descent. He studied in Germany, Paris, and the East, and became (1838) librarian and (1861) professor of Oriental Languages at Heidelberg. His chief works are a Life of Mohammed from Arabic sources (1843), histories of the califs (1846-62) and of the Islamic peoples (1866), &c.
Weil, GUSTAV
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 598
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