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Renate Jacobi

ريناته ياكوبي

Notable figure 1936–2023 · Source: Freie Universität Berlin, Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies, staff page: Renate Jacobi · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 131806815: Jacobi, Renate (1936–2023)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Pre-Islamic poetry; Poetik der altarabischen Qaside (1971)

Biography

Born in Volzrade, Mecklenburg, she studied at Tübingen and London and took her doctorate at Tübingen (1963). She was professor at Saarbrücken (1970–1994) and later at the Free University of Berlin. Her Studien zur Poetik der altarabischen Qaside (Wiesbaden, 1971) analysed the structure of the pre-Islamic ode and was translated into Arabic in 2005; she also wrote on ʿUdhri love poetry, elegy and the khayal motif.