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Armand-Pierre Caussin de Perceval
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Armand-Pierre Caussin de Perceval

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Notable figure 1795–1871 · 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. 38, 208, 305 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 10007605X): Caussin de Perceval, Armand-Pierre, 1795–1871

Field: Grammar and lexicography

Affiliation

Grammarian; author of a grammar of colloquial Arabic (1824)

Biography

Born in Paris, he lived in Aleppo and Lebanon then succeeded Ellious Bocthor in the chair of colloquial Arabic at the School of Oriental Languages (1821) and his father in the chair of Arabic at the Collège de France (1833). He wrote a Grammaire arabe vulgaire (Paris 1824) and revised and enlarged Ellious Bocthor's Dictionnaire français-arabe (Paris 1828–1829).