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Herman of Carinthia (Hermann the Dalmatian)

هرمان الكارنثيّ (الدلماطيّ)

Notable figure c. 1110–after 1154 · Source: Tatjana Paić-Vukić, The Biography of Hermann the Dalmatian: Separating Conjectures from Verifiable Claims, Turkish Academy of Sciences (2019), doi 10.53478/TUBA.2019.010 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Hermann le Dalmate (1110-1154)

From Croatia; worked in Spain and France

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Latin Great Introduction of Abu Ma'shar from Arabic (1140)

Biography

From central Istria, most of which is now in Croatia. He worked in northern Spain on the Ebro and in southern France with his companion Robert of Ketton, the two translating directly from Arabic into Latin. He translated Abu Ma'shar's Great Introduction (1140) and Sahl ibn Bishr's astrological text; other versions are attributed to him, including al-Khwarizmi's tables and Ptolemy's Planisphere. At Peter the Venerable's request he compiled two texts on Islam. His share in the Latin Qur'an has no sound evidence.