Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen (18 August 1866 – June 1, 1953) was a
Swedish professor and
orientalist.
Biography
Zetterstéen was born at
Orsa in
Dalarna, Sweden. He began his studies at
Uppsala University in 1884, became a Ph.D. and
docent of
Semitic languages in 1895. He also studied under professor
Eduard Sachau (1845–1930) at the
University of Berlin. He was acting professor of Oriental languages at
Lund University 1895-1904 and professor of Semitic languages in Uppsala 1904–1931. He became emeritus 1931.
As a semitist, Zetterstéen was foremost an Arabic philologist, but he was also well-oriented in non-Semitic languages such as
Persian,
Turkish and
Nubian. Beside a large number of text editions and studies, he published a Swedish translation of the
Qur'an and wrote several articles in the
Nordisk familjebok as well as a number of popular works.
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