Wolfhart Heinrichs

Wolfhart P. Heinrichs(3 October 1941 – 23 January 2014) was a German-born scholar ofArabic.He was James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic atHarvard University,and a co-editor of the second edition of theEncyclopaedia of Islam.He taughtClassical Arabic languageandliterature,particularlyArabic literary theoryand criticism.^[1]

Life

Wolfhart Heinrichs was born inCologneinto an academic family: his father, H. Matthias Heinrichs, was professor of ancient Germanic studies at theUniversity of Giessenand theFree University of Berlin;his mother, Anne Heinrichs, a lecturer onOld Norse,was made a professor at the Free University at the age of 80.^[2]

He was educated at theFriedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasiumin Cologne before studyingIslamic studiesat theUniversity of Cologne.After a year at theSchool of Oriental and African StudiesinLondon,he continued studying at the Universities ofFrankfurtandGiessen.He gained his PhD in 1967 for a thesis onHazim al-Qartajanni's reception ofAristotelian poetics,and spent a year at theOrient-Institut Beirut.^[2]

Heinrichs taught at Giessen from 1968 to 1977, when he went toHarvard Universityas a visiting lecturer, and in 1978 took up a permanent position there.^[1]In 1980 he married Alma Giese, an independent scholar and translator fromArabic.In 1989 he became a co-editor of the new edition of theEncyclopaedia of Islam,for which he also wrote fifty articles himself.^[2]In 1996 he succeededMuhsin Mahdias the James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard.^[1]AFestschriftwas published in 2008.^[2]

Works

Arabische Dichtung und griechische Poetik. Hāzim al-Qartāğannīs Grundlegung d. Poetik mit Hilfe aristotel. Begriffe.,Wiesbaden, F. Steiner in Komm., 1969.
The hand of the northwind: opinions on metaphor and the early meaning of istiʼāra in Arabic poetics,Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1977.
(ed.)Studies in Neo-Aramaic,Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1989.
(ed. with J. Christoph Bürgel)Orientalisches Mittelalter,Wiesbaden: AULA-Verlag, 1990.
'Prosimetrical Genres in Classical Arabic Literature', in J. Harris and K. Reichl, eds.,Prosimetrum, Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Poetry,Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997, pp. 249–275
'Der Teil und das Ganze: Die Auto-Anthologie Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillīs',Asiatische Studien59:3 (2005), pp. 675–696
(ed. with Peri Bearman andBernard G. Weiss)The law applied: contextualizing the Islamic Shari'a: a volume in honor of Frank E. Vogel,London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2008.
'Early Ornate Prose and the Rhetorization of Poetry in Arabic Literature', in Frédérique Woerther, ed.,Literary and Philosophical Rhetoric in the Greek, Roman, Syriac and Arabic Worlds,Hildesheim etc.: Olms, 2009, 215–234.
Heinrichs, W. P.;Allen, R.M.A.(2012)."Arabic poetics".InGreene, Roland;et al. (eds.).The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics(4th rev. ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 62–65.ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6.

References

^^a ^b ^cNoy, Avigail."Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, 1941 - 2014"(PDF).Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,Harvard University.Retrieved28 May2015.
^^a ^b ^c ^dBeatrice Gruendler; Michael Cooperson (2008). "Preface". InBeatrice GruendlerandMichael Cooperson(ed.).Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on His 65th Birthday.BRILL.pp. xiii–xix.ISBN 978-90-04-16573-1.Retrieved19 December2012.

[NELC-1] Noy, Avigail."Wolfhart P. Heinrichs, 1941 - 2014"(PDF).Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations,Harvard University.Retrieved28 May2015.

[Gruendler2008-2] Beatrice Gruendler; Michael Cooperson (2008). "Preface". InBeatrice GruendlerandMichael Cooperson(ed.).Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms: Festschrift for Wolfhart Heinrichs on His 65th Birthday.BRILL.pp. xiii–xix.ISBN 978-90-04-16573-1.Retrieved19 December2012.

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