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Hermannus Alemannus

هرمان الألمانيّ

Notable figure d. 1272 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 710; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1080 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Hermann l'Allemand (12..-1272)

From Germany; worked in Spain

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Latin translator of Arabic texts on Rhetoric and Poetics

Biography

He worked as a translator in Toledo and later became bishop of Astorga in Castile, where he died. He rendered into Latin the Arabic version of Aristotle's Rhetoric, drawing on al-Farabi's commentary, and Averroes' Middle Commentary on the Poetics (1256), bringing to Latin readers what the Arabic philosophers had said about rhetoric and poetry. Before these he had translated Averroes' Middle Commentary on the Ethics (1240).