Heinrich Thorbecke

Andreas Heinrich Thorbecke (March 14, 1837 in Meiningen – January 3, 1890 in Mannheim) was a German Arabic scholar. His studies were directed mainly to the poetry of the Bedouin and the history of Arabic.

He studied at the universities of Munich and Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer. In 1873 he was appointed an associate professor at the University of Heidelberg, then relocated to Halle in 1885, where he attained a full professorship in 1887.

• Antarah, ein vorislamitischer Dichter (Life of Antarah, the Pre-Islamite Poet, 1867).
• Al-Harīri's Durrat-al-gawwas (1871); edition of Al-Hariri.
• Al-A'schā's Lobgedicht auf Mahammed (Al Ashâ's Song of Praise to Mohammed, 1875)
• Ibn Duraid's Kitāb al-malāhin (1882); edition of Ibn Duraid.
• Die Mufad-dali-jāt (The Mufaddaaliyyat, 1885).
• Mihail Sabbag's Grammatik der arabischen Umgangssprache in Syrien und Aegypten (M. Sabbâg's Grammar of Conversational Arabic in Syria and Egypt, 1886).