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Alfred von Kremer
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Alfred von Kremer

ألفرد فون كريمر

Notable figure 1828–1889 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 630; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 892 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Kremer, Alfred von (1828-1889)

From Austria; worked in Egypt and Lebanon

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of Abu Nuwas; author of Arabic lexicon addenda

Biography

Born in Vienna, he graduated from its university and served as his country's consul in Egypt and then in Beirut, later in the foreign ministry. He translated the poems of Abu Nuwas into German (Vienna, 1855), edited the Himyarite Qasida of Nashwan ibn Saʿid (Leipzig, 1865), and wrote on the poetry of Labid and on the philosophical poems of Abu al-ʿAla al-Maʿarri. He also wrote Beiträge zur arabischen Lexikographie (Vienna, 1883–1884), beside his books on the cultural history of Islam.