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Johann Jakob Reiske
German scholar and physician (1716–1774) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Johann Jakob Reiske (Neo-Latin: Johannes Jacobus Reiskius; 25 December 1716 – 14 August 1774) was a German scholar and physician. He was a pioneer in the fields of Arabic and Byzantine philology as well as Islamic numismatics.
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