Albert Socin (13 October 1844 inBasel – 24 June 1899 inLeipzig) was a Swissorientalist, who specialized in the research ofNeo-Aramaic,Kurdish and contemporaryArabic dialects. He also made contributions to the geography, archaeology, religion, art and literature of the Middle East.^[1]

He studiedphilology at theUniversity of Basel and Oriental studies at the universities ofGöttingen andLeipzig,^[2] receiving hishabilitation for Oriental languages in 1871 at Basel. In 1873 he became an associate professor, then from 1876 to 1890 served as a full professor ofSemitic languages at theUniversity of Tübingen. From 1890 up until his death in 1899, he was a professor of Oriental languages at theUniversity of Leipzig.^[1]

In 1868–70, withEugen Prym, he carried out language research in theLevant andIraq, then in 1873 returned to the Middle East on behalf of theBaedeker publishing firm. He was a founding member of theDeutschen Vereins zur Erforschung Palästinas ("German Society for the Exploration of Palestine").^[1][2]

• Socin, A. (1876).Palestine and Syria : handbook for travellers.Baedeker.
• Socin, A. (1879)."Alphabetisches Verzeichniss von Ortschaften des Paschalik Jerusalem".Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins.2:135–163.
• Kurdische sammlungen (2 volumes 1887–90, with Eugen Prym) – Kurdish collections.
• Die Genesis : mit äusserer Unterscheidung der Quellenschriften (withEmil Friedrich Kautzsch), 1891 – TheGenesis: with external distinction of documentary sources.
• Arabische Grammatik : Paradigmen, Literatur, Übungsstücke und Glossar (3rd edition, 1894) –Arabic grammar: paradigms, literature, studies and glossary.
• Diwan aus Centralarabien, 1900–01 –Diwan of central Arabia (collected, translated and explained by Socin, edited byHans Stumme).
• Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers; byKarl Baedeker. With 20 maps, 52 plans, and a panorama of Jerusalem (authors Albert Socin, John P. Peters, Immanuel Benzinger. First edition by Socin in 1875; the fourth English edition (1906) is based on the sixth German edition).
• Socin, Albert and Carl Brokelmann.Arabische Grammatik: Paradigmen, Literatur, Übungsstücke Und Glossar. Berlin: Reuther & Reichard, 1909.
• Socin, Albert (1912).Palestine and Syria, with routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and the island of Cyprus.Karl Baedeker.
• Neuaramäische Märchen und andere Texte aus Malula in deutscher Übersetzung, hauptsächlich aus der Sammlung E. Prym's und A. Socin's, 1915 (with Eugen Prym, pub.Gotthelf Bergsträsser) – Western Neo-Aramaic tales and other texts fromMa'lula.^[3]

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  Northern Palestine
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  Ancient Jerusalem
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  Northern Lebanon
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  Highland of Judea

• 1844 births
• 1899 deaths
• Academic staff of Leipzig University
• Academic staff of the University of Tübingen
• Academic staff of the University of Basel
• Swiss orientalists
• Swiss Arabists

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