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Matthew Lumsden

ماثيو لمسدن

Notable figure 1777–1835 · 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, pp. 78, 160, 167 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 100172504): Lumsden, Matthew, 1777–1835

From the United Kingdom; worked in India

Field: Grammar and dictionary editing

Affiliation

Grammarian; author of A Grammar of the Arabic Language

Biography

A Scot who taught Arabic and Persian at Fort William College in Calcutta, he wrote A Grammar of the Arabic Language (Calcutta 1813) and prefaced the Calcutta edition of al-Firuzabadi's al-Qamus al-muhit (1814–1817), corrected for the press by Ahmad al-Shirwani.

His words in «What They Said About the Arabs and Arabic»