Voice of Arabic Network
Search
Franciscus Raphelengius
Image: Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Franciscus Raphelengius

فرنسيس رافلينج

Notable figure 1539–1597 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, p. 42 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Raphelengius, Franciscus (1539-1597)

From Belgium; worked in the Netherlands

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of the Lexicon Arabicum (1613)

Biography

Born in Lannoy in Flanders, he settled in Leiden, where he prepared Arabic type and issued the Specimen characterum Arabicorum (Leiden 1595). He compiled an Arabic-Latin dictionary, the Lexicon Arabicum, which his sons published after his death in Leiden in 1613; it is one of the first Arabic dictionaries printed in Europe.