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Arthur F. J. Remy
1871–1954
A German-born American philologist, he explored how Indian and Persian literature echoed through German poetry. His work opens a window onto the rich literary exchanges that shaped European scholarship at the turn of the 20th century.
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The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany
by Arthur F. J. Remy
About the author
Born near Wuppertal, Germany, on June 26, 1871, Arthur F. J. Remy built his career in the United States as a scholar of German language and literature. Reference sources identify him as a Germanist with interests that reached into Indo-Iranian studies, and he later worked as a professor in New York.
He is best known for The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany (1901), a study that traces how Eastern literary traditions influenced German writers. The book reflects a wide-ranging curiosity and a comparative approach that would appeal to readers interested in how ideas travel across languages and cultures.
Remy died in 1954. Though not a household name today, his surviving work shows a serious, energetic scholar drawn to the meeting points between traditions that are often studied separately.