Axel Moberg

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Karl Axel Moberg (born June 15, 1872 in Norrköping , † August 11, 1955 ) was a Swedish orientalist and university professor.

Life

In 1890 Moberg became a student in Lund , in 1902 he became a lecturer in Semitic languages and received his doctorate in 1903. In 1908 he became professor of oriental languages at Lund University . From 1926 to 1936 he was the rector of the university.

Moberg was considered an excellent expert on the Syrian language . His most important work in this area is Book of Rays, the greater grammar of Barhebräus, translation from a critically corrected text (II, 1907; I, 1913). Further works are Ur c Abd allâh b. c Abd ez-Zâhir's biografi över sultanen el-Melik el-Ašraf Ḥalil (1902), poems by c Obeidallāh b. Ahmed al-Mîkāli (1908) and the edition of the Book of the Himjars (1924).

Publications (selection)

  • Ur c Abd allâh b. c Abd ez-Zâhir's biografi över sultanen el-Melik el-Ašraf Ḥalil. 1902
  • Book of rays, the greater grammar of Barhebräu, translation from a critically corrected text. Volume II 1907, Volume I 1913
  • Poems by c Obeidallāh b. Ahmed al-Mîkāli. 1908
  • The Book of the Himyarites. Fragments of a hitherto unknown Syriac work. Gleerup, Lund 1924

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Axel Moberg . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 18 : Mekaniker – Mycale . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 768 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Moberg, Axel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moberg, Karl Axel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish orientalist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Norrkoping
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1955