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Gustav Weil (1808–1889)
Weil, Gustav (vīl). A German Orientalist and historian; born at Sulzburg, Baden, April 25, 1808; died at Freiburg im Breisgau, Aug. 30, 1889. He was appointed professor of Oriental languages in the University of Heidelberg, 1861. He wrote: ‘The Poetry of the Arabs’ (1837); a learned ‘History of Mohammed the Prophet’ (1843); ‘Historico-critical Introduction to the Koran’ (1844); ‘Biblical Legends of the Mussulmans’ (1845); ‘History of the Khalifs’ (5 vols., 1846–62); ‘History of the Islamitic People from Mohammed to the time of the Sultan Selim’ (1866). He made the first German translation of the ‘Thousand Nights and a Night’ (4 vols., 1837–41).