Beatrice Gruendler

Beatrice Gruendler (German spelling: Gründler) is a German Arabist, professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Free University of Berlin and former president of the American Oriental Society. Her research has included studies on the history of the Arabic book, the connection between Arabic and premodern literatures in languages such as Hebrew, Syriac and Latin and the role of Arabic literature as a link between West Asia and Europe.

Gruendler has been honoured for her scholarship with the German Leibniz Prize and an honorary doctorate by Leiden University. In 2025, her work ''The Rise of the Arabic Book'' was shortlisted for the prestigious Sheikh Zayed Book Award.

In 2017, the German Research Foundation wrote that her "approach puts into practice in an exemplary way the encounters between Arabic and European knowledge traditions." Provided by Wikipedia