Christoph Krehl

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Christoph Ludolf Ehrenfried Krehl (1825-199) was a German Orientalist, born at Meissen, and educated at Leipzig, Tübingen, Paris, and St. Petersburg. He became secretary of the Royal Library in Dresden in 1852 and in 1861 went to Leipzig as librarian of the university and professor or Oriental languages. He edited certain arabic texts and wrote:

  • Ueber die Religion der vorislamischen Araber (1863)
  • Ueber die koranische Lehre von der Prädestination (1870)
  • Beiträge zur Charakteristik der Lehre vom Glauben im Islam (1877)
  • Das Leben und die Lehre des Muhammed, volume i (1884)