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Vincenz Rosenzweig von Schwannau
Image: Eduard Kaiser (lithograph, 1855), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Vincenz Rosenzweig von Schwannau

فينتسنتس روزنتسفايغ فون شفاناو

Notable figure 1791–1865 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 629; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 613 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Rosenzweig von Schwannau, Vinzenz (1791-1865)

From Austria; worked in Türkiye

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of al-Busiri's Burda into German

Biography

Born in Brno in Moravia, he graduated from the Oriental Academy in Vienna, served as a dragoman in Constantinople, and later taught at the same school. He translated al-Busiri's Burda into German; most of his work was on Persian poetry: Jami's Yusuf and Zulaykha (1824), selections from Jalal al-Din Rumi, and the diwan of Hafiz, text and translation, in three volumes.