Christoph Krehl

Christoph Ludolf Ehrenfried Krehl (1825–1909) was a German Orientalist, born at Meissen, and educated at Leipzig, Tübingen, Paris, and Saint 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 the following works:

• 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)

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

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Name	Krehl, Christoph
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Date of birth	1825
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Date of death	1909
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