Qustaki al-Himsi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Qustaki al-Himsi

Syrian writer

Date of Birth: 04-Feb-1858

Place of Birth: Aleppo, Aleppo Governorate, Syria

Date of Death: 09-Mar-1941

Profession: poet, translator, literary critic

Nationality: Syria

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Qustaki al-Himsi (Arabic: ?????? ???????, ALA-LC: Qus?aki al-?im?i; 1858–1941) was a Syrian writer and poet of the Nahda movement (the Arabic renaissance), a prominent figure in the Arabic literature of the 19th and 20th centuries and one of the first reformers of the traditional Arabic poetry.
With his book The researcher's source in the science of criticism, al-Himsi is considered to be the founder of modern literary criticism among the Arab scholars.