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Edmund Castell
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Edmund Castell

إدموند كاستيل

Notable figure 1606–1685 · 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. 39 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Castell, Edmund (1606-1685)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of the Lexicon Heptaglotton (1669)

Biography

Born in Hatley in Cambridgeshire, he was professor of Arabic at Cambridge. He compiled the Lexicon Heptaglotton (London 1669), covering Arabic with Hebrew, Syriac and their sister languages, the first work of its kind.