Heinrich Ferdinand Wüstenfeld (31 July 1808 – 8 February 1899) was a German orientalist, known as a literary historian of Arabic literature, born at Münden, Hanover.
He studied theology and oriental languages at Göttingen and Berlin. He taught at Göttingen, becoming a professor there (1842–90).[1] He published many important Arabic texts and valuable works on Arabic history.
Geschichte der Arabischen Ärzte und Naturforscher (1840)
Navavi, Tahdhib al-Asma, Biographical dictionary of illustrious men (4 bd, 1842–47)
The biographical dictionary of illustrious men, chiefly at the beginning of Islamism; now first ed. from the collation of two mss. at Göttingen and Leiden (1842)