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Régis Blachère
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Régis Blachère

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Notable figure 1900–1973 · 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. 13, 38, 79–81 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Régis Blachère (1900-1973)

Field: Grammar, literature and lexicography

Affiliation

Grammarian; author of a classical Arabic grammar (1937)

Biography

Born in Montrouge near Paris and raised in Morocco, he taught at the Sorbonne. With Gaudefroy-Demombynes he wrote the Grammaire de l'arabe classique (Paris 1937); he wrote Abou t-Tayyib al-Motanabbî (1935) and the Histoire de la littérature arabe (1952–1966), set out rules for editing Arabic manuscripts with Jean Sauvaget (1953), and began the Dictionnaire arabe-français-anglais.