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Gyula Germanus
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Gyula Germanus

عبد الكريم جرمانوس

Notable figure 1884–1979 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 910; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 400 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Germanus, Gyula (1884-1979)

From Hungary; worked in India

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Arabic professor in Budapest; wrote on great Arabic writers

Biography

He learned Arabic and Turkish in Budapest under Vámbéry and Goldziher, then in Istanbul and Vienna. In 1912 he became professor of Arabic, Turkish and Persian at the Oriental Academy in Budapest, and later head of the Arabic department of the university (1948), where he taught the language and its classical and modern literature until he retired in 1965; he also taught at universities in India (1929–1932). He published a work on the great figures of Arabic literature (1952) and a study of Arabic linguistic structures (1954), lectured in Arabic in Cairo and Damascus on modern Arabic literature, and was a corresponding member of the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo (1956) and the Iraqi Academy (1962).