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Seeger A. Bonebakker

سيخر أدريانوس بونباكر

Notable figure 1923–2005 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 307 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Bonebakker, Seeger Adrianus (1923-2005)

From the Netherlands; worked in the United States

Field: Rhetoric and poetics

Affiliation

Editor of Qudama ibn Jaʿfar's Naqd al-shiʿr (1956)

Biography

He studied Arabic, Hebrew, Akkadian, Syriac and Persian at Leiden from 1946, took his doctorate there (1956) and taught there. He moved to Columbia University in New York (1960) and then became professor of Arabic at the University of California, Los Angeles. He edited Qudama ibn Jaʿfar's Naqd al-shiʿr (Leiden, 1956), and wrote on tawriya and al-Safadi's book on it (1966) and on the manuscripts of Adab al-katib, Kitab al-sinaʿatayn and al-Mathal al-saʾir.