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Annemarie Schimmel

آنه ماري شيمل

Notable figure 1922–2003 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 750 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie: Schimmel, Annemarie (1922–2003)

From Germany; worked in Türkiye and the United States

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of modern Arabic poetry into German (1975)

Biography

She studied Arabic, Persian and Turkish in Berlin, taught in Ankara and then at the Oriental languages institute of the University of Bonn, and later moved to Harvard. She translated a selection of modern Arabic poetry into German (Zeitgenössische arabische Lyrik, 1975), introduced the new edition of Max Henning's German Qur'an (Stuttgart 1960), and wrote on Arabic calligraphy.