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Hubert Grimme

هوبرت غريمه

Notable figure 1864–1942 · Source: Johann Fück, Tarikh harakat al-istishraq (Die arabischen Studien in Europa), trans. ʿUmar Lutfi al-ʿAlim, 2nd ed., Dar al-Madar al-Islami, Beirut 2001, p. 334 · Second source: TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, s.v. «Grimme, Hubert»

From Germany; worked in Switzerland

Field: Qur'an translation

Affiliation

Translated selections of the Qur'an in its metre (1923)

Biography

Born in Paderborn, he took his doctorate under Eduard Sachau (1886). He taught at Fribourg in Switzerland from 1889 and at Münster from 1910 to 1929. He selected and arranged passages of the Qur'an and put them into German in its own metre (Paderborn 1923). He also wrote a book on the Prophet's life (1892–1895) and studies of South and North Arabian inscriptions.