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Beatrice Gruendler

بياتريس غروندلر

Notable figure b. 1964 · Source: Freie Universität Berlin, Arabic Studies, profile: Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gruendler · Second source: Library of Congress Name Authority File n93004488: Gruendler, Beatrice (b. 24 Aug. 1964)

From Germany; worked in the United States

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Classical literature; The Development of the Arabic Scripts

Biography

She studied at Strasbourg, Tübingen and Harvard, where she took her doctorate (1995), and taught at Yale (1996–2014) before moving to the Free University of Berlin. She wrote The Development of the Arabic Scripts (Atlanta, 1993), Medieval Arabic Praise Poetry: Ibn al-Rumi and the Patron's Redemption (London, 2003) and The Rise of the Arabic Book (Harvard, 2020). She leads a European project for a synoptic digital edition of the Arabic versions of Kalila wa-Dimna.