Name

Friedrich Rückert

Original name

Main activity

Poet

Secondary activity

Orientalist

Title

Name variations

Friedrich Johann Michael Rückert "

Education place

Education institution

Activity place

Erlangen

Activity institution

Activity start date

Activity end date

Place of birth

Schweinfurt

Date of birth

1788

Place of death

Neuses (Coburg)

Date of death

1866

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Friedrich Rückert was a prominent nineteenth-century German poet and accomplished orientalist. His extensive oeuvre includes a masterful poetical translation of the Qur'an into German. It is incomplete and was first published posthumously (1888).

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov