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Hellmut Ritter

هلموت ريتر

Notable figure 1892–1971 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, pp. 79, 81, 128 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 11910296X): Ritter, Hellmut, born 27 Feb. 1892 in Hessisch Lichtenau, died 19 May 1971

From Germany; worked in Türkiye

Field: Rhetoric

Affiliation

Editor of al-Jurjani's Asrar al-balagha (Istanbul 1954)

Biography

Born in Hessisch Lichtenau, he lived in Istanbul for thirty years. He edited ʿAbd al-Qahir al-Jurjani's Asrar al-balagha (Istanbul 1954) and translated it into German as Die Geheimnisse der Wortkunst (Wiesbaden 1959).