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Eduard Glaser (1855–1908) was a preeminent scholar of South Arabia. He was born in Rust in Bohemia, and later moved to Vienna, where he studied Arabic and Sabaean grammar under Austrian orientalist David Heinrich Müller. Glaser made four journeys to South Arabia in the late 19th century (1882–84, 1885–86, 1887–88, and 1892–94) to study and copy down Sabaean inscriptions. The Sabaeans were a people of South Arabia in pre-Islamic times, founders of the kingdom of Saba’, the biblical Sheba. They spoke a Semitic language, now ...