Alois Richard Nykl

Alois Richard Nykl (born December 13, 1885 in Prague , † December 5, 1958 in Evanston , Illinois ) was an American Romanist , Hispanic and Arabist of Czech origin.

life and work

Nykl studied in Switzerland and Germany from 1913. Then he emigrated to Chicago and studied Romance languages ​​there. He spent two years in Mexico and another two in Egypt, from 1911 he was in Japan. In Chicago, he completed his master's degree in 1919 with the thesis Transcription and commentary upon some Aljamiado texts . In 1921 he received his doctorate there with the work Rrekontamiento del rrey Alisandere. An aljamiado text, with introduction and notes (published ud T. A compendium of Aljamiado literatura, in: Revue Hispanique 77, 172, 1929, pp. 409–611) and received citizenship of the United States.

He was at Northwestern University in Evanston. He did research in Spain and Mexico. On a scholarship from the University of Chicago, he traveled to Spain, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon from 1929 to 1932. He was a professor at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. From 1941 he taught at Harvard University .

Works

• (Translator) A book containing the Risala known as the Dove's Neck-Ring about love and lovers composed by Abu Muhammad 'Ali Ibn Hazm Al-Andalusi, may God forgive him and pardon him, and the believers. Translated from the unique manuscript in the University of Leiden. Edited by DK Petrofin 1914, Paris 1931
• (Ed.) El collar de la paloma de Ibn Hazm , París 1931
• (Ed.) Kitāb al-zahrah (The book of the flower) , Chicago 1932
• (Ed.) Cancionero de Abén Guzmán , Madrid 1933
• (Translator) Koran . Prvni úplný překlad z arabštiny, Prague 1934 (first complete translation into Czech)
• Věčné Japonsko cestopis , Prague 1939 (travel report Japan, Czech)
• (Ed.) Istoria de los amores de Bayāḍ y Riyāḍ. Una chantefable oriental en estilo persa , New York 1941
• (Ed.) Duarte Galvão, Crónica del rey Dom Allomso Hamrríquez , Cambridge, Mass. 1942
• Hispano-Arabic poetry and its relations with the Old Provençal Troubadours , Baltimore 1946, Geneva 1974 (French: La poésie hispano-arabe et les premiers troubadours d'Aquitaine , Moustier-Ventadour 2005)
• (Ed.) Selections from Hispano-Arabic poetry , Beirut 1949

literature

• Edwin J. Webber, [Obituary] in: Hispanic Review 28, 1960, p. 96ff (English)
• Vladimir Honsa, “In Memoriam Alois Richard Nykl (1885-1958) Arabist and Hispanist. A biography and bibliography ”, in: Orbis 16, 1967, pp. 295-305

Web links

• Literature by and about Alois Richard Nykl in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )