Edmond Maximilien Berthout van Berchem (16 March 1863, Geneva – 7 March 1921, Vaumarcus) commonly known as Max van Berchem, was a Swiss philologist, epigraphist and historian. Best known as the founder of Arabicepigraphy in the Western world, he was the mastermind of the ''Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum'', an international collaboration among eminent scholars to collect and publish Arabic inscriptions from the Middle East.
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