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Gustave E. von Grunebaum

غوستاف فون غرونباوم

Notable figure 1909–1972 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1019; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 402 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Grunebaum, Gustav Edmund von (1909-1972)

From Austria; worked in the United States

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Scholar of early Arabic poetry and literary criticism

Biography

A graduate of Vienna and Berlin, he taught at New York University (1938–1943) and the University of Chicago (1943–1957), then at the University of California, where he headed Near Eastern studies. He wrote on pre-Islamic poetry and Arabic literary criticism, collected the poems of Bishr ibn Abi Khazim (1939) and of Mutiʿ ibn Iyas, Muslim al-Khasir and Abu al-Shamaqmaq (1948–1953), and translated al-Baqillani's discussion of poetry into English.