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Guillaume Postel
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Guillaume Postel

غليوم بوستل

Notable figure 1510–1581 · 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. 27–28 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 118793004): Postel, Guillaume, born 25 March 1510 in Barenton, died 6 Sep. 1581

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Grammarian; author of an early printed Arabic grammar

Biography

Born in Barenton in Normandy, he travelled to Constantinople and the Levant and then taught oriental languages at the Collège de France (from 1538 or 1539). His Grammatica arabica (Paris, c. 1538) is among the first Arabic grammars printed in Europe.

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