Federico Corriente

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Federico Corriente Córdoba (born November 14, 1940 in Granada , Spain - † June 16, 2020 ) was a Spanish Arabist , university professor and member of the Royal Spanish Language Academy .

Scientific education and career

Federico Corriente completed his studies in Semitic Philology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid , where he also received his doctorate in 1967 with the thesis Problemática de la pluralidad en semítico: el plural fracto ('The problem of the plurality of the Semitic: The broken plural').

In 1962 he took over the post of director of the Spanish Cultural Center in Cairo . At the same time he worked there as a Spanish teacher at the Madrasat al-Alsun (language school). In 1965 he took a position as a Spanish and Hebrew teacher at the Mohammed V University in ar-Ribāṭ , Morocco . Since 1968 he has taught at Dropsie University in Philadelphia , where he was appointed professor of Semitic, Ethiopian and Arabic linguistics in 1970. 1972 returned Corriente to his alma mater as an associate professor ( agregado ) and became a research scientist in the Arias Montano Institute at the CSIC ( Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas ) for the study of Hebrew and the Middle East, named after the theologian of the 16th century Benedictus Arias Montanus . In 1976 Corriente finally took over the post of professor for Arabic languages ​​and literatures in the humanities faculty of the University of Zaragoza , but in 1986 he was appointed professor for Arabic-Islamic studies at the Complutense Madrid. In 1991 Corriente returned to Zaragoza, this time as Professor of Arabic-Islamic Studies, where he retired in 2011. From 2011 to 2015 Corriente stayed in Zaragoza as an emeritus.

Research priorities

Corriente has dealt with many areas of Semitic studies, he worked especially at the beginning of his academic career on contemporary Arabic literature , but soon also published historical sources with an Andalusian focus. A particular focus of his research was the work on the Cordobese poet Ibn Quzmān (1078–1160) and his pioneering research on the Andalusian-Arabic dialect.

Member of the Royal Spanish Language Academy

Federico Corriente Córdoba was elected a member of the Royal Spanish Language Academy ( Real Academia Española ) on April 6, 2017 . He took his place on May 20, 2018 with the lecture La investigación de los arabismos del castellano en registros normales, folklóricos y bajos (“The study of the arabisms of Castilian in the low, folkloric and normal language registers”). The Arabist, who was only elected a member at 77, joked to the press that the academy had to stop being a nursing home for the elderly.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Muere Federico Corriente, arabista y miembro de la Real Academia Española. In: abc.es. Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ http://www.unizar.es/estudiosarabes/documents/CVFedericoCorriente.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.unizar.es/estudiosarabes/documents/CVFedericoCorriente.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.rae.es/academicos/federico-corriente-cordoba
  5. ↑ «no puede seguir siendo un geriátrico» https://www.abc.es/cultura/abci-federico-corriente-academia-no-puede-seguir-siendo-geriatrico-201805201708_noticia.html
personal data
SURNAME Corriente, Federico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corriente Córdoba, Federico (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Arabist and Islamic scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Granada , Spain
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2020