Freytag

Freytag, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH, Orientalist, was born at Lüneburg in 1788, and from Göttingen proceeded to Paris, where he became a pupil of Silvestre de Sacy. Under him he continued the study of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, until he was called to the chair of Oriental Languages at Bonn in 1819. He died there, 16th November 1861. His reputation rests on his Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (4 vols. 1830-37), and his works on Arabic literature and history, as editions of Lokman's Fables (1823), Hamāsa's Odes (1828-52), and Ibn Arabshah's Fakihet al-Kholefa (1832-52), Carmen Arabicum (1830), Chrestomathia Arabica (1834), Arabum Proverbia (1838-43), and Selecta ex Historia Halebi (1819).