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Johannes Hendrik Kramers
Image: Unknown photographer, 1940s (from the Leiden University professors' website), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Johannes Hendrik Kramers

يوهانس هندريك كرامرز

Notable figure 1891–1951 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 670; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 881 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Kramers, Johannes Hendrik (1891-1951)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic at Leiden; editor of Ibn Hawqal

Biography

He was dragoman of the Dutch legation in Istanbul (1915–1922), then taught Turkish and Persian at Leiden, and in 1939 succeeded Wensinck in its chair of Arabic, which he held until his death. He re-edited Ibn Hawqal's Surat al-ard (Leiden, 1938–1939), contributed to the Encyclopaedia of Islam and its shorter version, and left a Dutch translation of the Qurʾan published after his death (1956).