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Friedrich Rückert
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Friedrich Rückert

فريدريش روكرت

Notable figure 1788–1866 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 699; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 618 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Rückert, Friedrich (1788-1866)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Poet; German verse of al-Hariri, the Hamasa, Muʿallaqat

Biography

A German poet educated at Würzburg and Heidelberg, he mastered Arabic and taught Oriental languages at Erlangen and then at Berlin (1841–1848). He recreated al-Hariri's maqamat in German, rendered the Muʿallaqat of Tarafa and ʿAmr ibn Kulthum in verse, wrote on Imruʾ al-Qays (1843), and translated Abu Tammam's Hamasa (1846).