Juan Vernet Ginés

✶July 31, 1923

†July 23, 2011

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Juan Vernet Ginés or Joan Vernet i Ginés was a Spanish science historian, Arabist and professor at the University of Barcelona for over thirty years. He was the pupil and intellectual heir of orientalist Maria Millàs Vallicrosa. The rigor and scope of his scholarly work give him international authority in the field of the history of science and cultural transfers between East and West. Author of the book "What culture owes to the Arabs of Spain", he also translated the quran and One Thousand and One Nights into Castilian Spanish.

Spanish science historian and Arabicist (1923-2011)

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