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Marcelin Beaussier

مارسلان بوسييه

Notable figure 1821–1873 · 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. 38 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Beaussier, Marcelin (1821-1873)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of an Arabic-French dictionary (1871)

Biography

Born in Paris, he worked as an interpreter in Algeria. He compiled the Dictionnaire pratique arabe-français, covering the Arabic of Algeria and Tunisia (Algiers 1871), reissued in revised form after his death (1887).