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Wilhelm Hoenerbach

فيلهلم هونرباخ

Notable figure 1911–1991 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 799; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1091 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Hoenerbach, Wilhelm (1911-1991)

From Germany; worked in the United States

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Scholar of the zajal of Ibn Quzman and Safi al-Din al-Hilli

Biography

He studied and taught at German universities and taught for a time at the University of California. He published new findings on Ibn Quzman (1945–1949) and, with Hellmut Ritter, new material for the study of Ibn Quzman's zajal (1950–1952), and wrote on the theory of zajal in Safi al-Din al-Hilli (1950), on the zajal (1954), and on Spanish poetry in the Islamic period (1963–1964).