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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 281 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAUER , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Silesia, 13 M. by See also:rail S. of Leignitz, on the Wtithende See also:Neisse. Pop. (1900), 13,024. St See also:Martin's (See also:Roman See also:Catholic) See also:church See also:dates from 1267-1290, and the Evangelical church from 1655. A new town-See also:hall was erected in 1895-1898. Jauer manufactures See also:leather, carpets, cigars, carriages and gloves, and is specially famous for its sausages. The town was first mentioned in 1242, and was formerly the See also:capital of a principality em-bracing about 1200 sq. m., now occupied by the circles of Jauer, See also:Bunzlau, Loweberg, Hirschberg and Schonau. From 1392 to 1741 it belonged to the See also:kings of Bohemia, being taken from Maria See also:Theresa by See also:Frederick the See also:Great. Jauer was formerly the prosperous seat of the Silesian See also:linen See also:trade, but the troubles of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War, in the course of which it was burned down three times, permanently injured this. See Schonaich, See also:Die alte Furstentumshauptstadt Jauer (Jauer, 1903). JAUHART (See also:ABU NASR ISMAeIL See also:IBN 1;IAMMAD UL-JAUHARI) (d. 1002 or 1010), Arabian lexicographer, was See also:born at Farab on the See also:borders of See also:Turkestan.

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language in Farab and See also:Bagdad, and later among the See also:Arabs of the See also:desert. He then settled in See also:Damghan and afterwards at See also:Nishapur, where he died by a fall from the roof of a See also:house. His great See also:work is the Kitab us-Sabah fil-Lugha, an Arabic See also:dictionary, in which the words are arranged alphabetically according to the last See also:letter of the See also:root. He himself had only partially finished the last recension, but the work was completed by his See also:pupil, Abu Ishaq Ibrahirn ibn Salih ul-Warraq. An edition was begun by E. Scheidius with a Latin See also:translation, but one See also:part only appeared at Harderwijk (1776). The whole has been published at Tebriz (1854) and at See also:Cairo (1865), and many abridgments and See also:Persian See also:translations have appeared; cf. C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Literatur (See also:Weimar, 1898), i. 128 seq. (G. W.

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