Hans Wehr
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For the dictionary, see Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.
Hans Wehr (1909-1981) was a German Arabist. A professor at the University of Münster from 1957-1974, he published the Arabisches Wörterbuch (1952), which was later published in an English edition as A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, edited by J Milton Cowan. For the dictionary Wehr created a transliteration scheme to represent the Arabic alphabet. The latest edition of the dictionary was published in 1995 and is Arabic-German only.
