Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen (18 August 1866 – June 1, 1953) was a

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professor and orientalist.

Biography

Zetterstéen was born at Orsa in

Dalarna Dalarna () is a '' landskap'' (historical province) in central Sweden. English exonyms for it are Dalecarlia () and the Dales. Dalarna adjoins Härjedalen, Hälsingland, Gästrikland, Västmanland and Värmland Värmland () also known a ...

, Sweden. He began his studies at

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in 1884, became a Ph.D. and

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in 1895. He also studied under professor

Eduard Sachau Carl Eduard Sachau (20 July 1845 – 17 September 1930) was a German orientalist. He taught Josef Horovitz and Eugen Mittwoch. Biography He studied oriental languages at the Universities of Kiel and Leipzig, obtaining his PhD at Halle in 1867. ...

(1845–1930) at the

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. He was acting professor of Oriental languages at

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, Turkish and

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. Beside a large number of text editions and studies, he published a Swedish translation of the

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and wrote several articles in the

Nordisk familjebok ''Nordisk familjebok'' (, "Nordic Family Book") is a Swedish encyclopedia that was published in print from between 1876 and 1993, and that is now fully available in digital form via Project Runeberg at Linköping University. Despite their consi ...

as well as a number of popular works. ,

Translations & Editions

* *

(Stockholm, 1917) * * * * *
Shams al-'ulum wa-dawa' kalam al-'Arab min al- kulum
'' (‘The sun of Wisdom and Remedy for the Arabic Language's Lesions’) by Nashwān ibn Saʻīd al-Ḥimyarī*

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zettersteen, Karl Vilhelm Swedish philologists Arabists Linguists from Sweden 1866 births 1953 deaths People from Dalarna Uppsala University alumni Quran translators Swedish orientalists Academic staff of Lund University Academic staff of Uppsala University Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala