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Francis Joseph Steingass

فرنسيس جوزيف شتيانجس

Notable figure 1825–1903 · 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. 40, 41 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Francis Steingass (1825-1903)

From Germany; worked in the United Kingdom

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of an Arabic-English dictionary (1884)

Biography

Born in Frankfurt, he settled in England. He compiled an English-Arabic Dictionary (London 1882) and The Student's Arabic-English Dictionary (London 1884), and translated the second volume of al-Hariri's Assemblies into English with grammatical notes (London 1898).

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