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José Alemany y Bolufer

خوسيه أليماني بولوفير

Notable figure 1866–1934 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 493 (no al-Aqiqi page in the batch row) · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Alemany Bolufer, José (1866–1934)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Edited the Castilian Kalila wa-Dimna against the Arabic

Biography

Born in Cullera near Valencia, he took a doctorate in philosophy and letters at Madrid (1889), taught Greek at Granada (1891) and then Madrid, and was elected to the Royal Spanish Academy. He edited the Old Castilian version of Kalila wa-Dimna collated with the Arabic original (Madrid, 1915), and collected what the Arab geographers wrote about the Iberian Peninsula (Granada, 1921).