Juan Vernet
Juan Vernet Ginés (born July 31, 1923 in Barcelona ; † July 23, 2011 there ) was a Spanish historian of science and Arabist.
Also Joan Vernet.
Vernet attended the German school in Barcelona in 1931/32 and the municipal school in Vilanova de Prades from 1933 . He was a student of the orientalist and science historian Josep Maria Millàs Vallicrosa (1897-1970) at the University of Barcelona . After graduating in 1946, he was a teacher in Morocco. In 1948 he received his doctorate from the University of Madrid with a dissertation on Ibn al-Banna al-Marrākuschī . He then became an assistant professor for Arabic history of science in Barcelona, where he was professor for Arabic language and literature from 1954 to 1987.
He was an expert on the history of science in medieval Islam in Spain (specifically cartography, astronomy) and in the Renaissance. Vernet also translated the Arabian Nights and the Koran from Arabic into Spanish and wrote a biography of Mohammed.
He was vice-president of the Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences . In 1995 he received the Koyré Medal . In 2004 he received the Sharja Prize for Arabic Culture.
Fonts
- Contribución al estudio de la labor astrónomica de Ibn al-Bannāʾ, Frankfurt am Main: Inst. For the History of Arab.-Islamic Science, 1998, Reprint of the ed. Tetuan, Ed. Marroqui, 1951/52
- The Spanish-Arab culture in the Orient and Occident, Artemis Verlag 1984 (Spanish: La Cultura hispano árabe en Oriente y Occidente 1978)
- Literatura árabe, 1966
- Astrología y astronomía en el Renacimiento: la revolución copernicana, 1974
- Historia de la ciencia española, 1976
- Mahoma, 1987
- Lo que Europa debe al Islam del Espana, 1999
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vernet, Juan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vernet, Joan; Vernet Gines, Juan; Vernet i Gines, Juan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 2011 |
| Place of death | Barcelona |