Álvaro Galmés de Fuentes

Álvaro Galmés de Fuentes (11 November 1924 – 5 February 2003) was a Spanish philologist, dialectologist, and arabist. He was considered one of the leading authorities in romance and Arabic philology both nationally and internationally. He was awarded the Premio Extraordinario in 1954 for his doctoral thesis on the stylistic and syntactic influences of Arabic on medieval Spanish prose. He was awarded the Premio Nacional de Investigación "Ramón Menéndez Pidal" de Humanidades in 2002 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain for upholding the tradition of Hispanic philology and his innovative contributions to the field from romance and semitic perspectives.

Published works

Influencias sintácticas y estilísticas del árabe en la prosa medieval castellana (1955, 1996) Las sibilantes en la Romania (1962) Épica árabe y épica castellana (1978) El libro de las batallas, narraciones caballerescas aljamiado-moriscas (1975) Historia de los amores de París y Viena (1970) Dialectología mozárabe (1983) Los moriscos (desde su misma orilla) (1993) Las jarchas mozárabes. Forma y significado (1994) El amor cortés en la lírica árabe y en la lírica provenzal (1996)