Some biographical data:

Name:  Remke Kruk
Year of birth:  1942
Place of birth:  Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Study and exams:

• 1954-1960: Gemeentelijk Gymnasium, Apeldoorn. Diploma: Gymnasium A.
• 1960-1966: Leiden University, major: Arabic; minor: New Persian.
  • “kandidaatsexamen”: 14 juni 1963
  • doctoral exam:  7 oktober 1966.
• 1966-1967: study at Cairo University, Egypte.
• 1978:  PhD at the University of Amsterdam. Promotor (supervisor):  Prof.dr. H.J. Drossaart Lulofs. Title of dissertation:  The Arabic Version of Aristotle's Parts of Animals. Book XI-XIV of the Kitâb al-Hayawân; a critical edition with introduction and selected glossary.

Professional career:

• August 1967-December 1969: research fellow, later assistant professor, at the University of Leiden.
• January 1969-January 1990: Assistant professor, later associate professor, at the University of Utrecht.
• February 1990-October 2007:  Full professor of Arabic Language and Culture at the University of Leiden.
• January-May 1994: visiting fellow at NELC (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Harvard University.
• 2000: appointed as member of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).
• January-May 2002: visiting fellow at NELC (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures), Harvard University.
• September 2008-January 2009: visiting fellow at MEIS (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies), New York University, New York.
• 2007- : affiliate fellow of LIAS (Leiden Institute for Area Studies).

Current functions:

• Co-editor  (with H. Daiber) of the series Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus
• Member of the Editorial Board of Oriens
• Member of the Advisory Board of Encyclopaedia of Islam 3
• Member of the Editorial Board of "Studia graeco-arabic