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Jean Humbert

جان همبرت

Notable figure 1792–1851 · 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. 208, 306, 324 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Jean Humbert (1792-1851)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Teacher of Arabic; author of a guide to Arabic conversation

Biography

Born in Geneva, he studied under de Sacy in Paris and then taught Arabic at the Academy of Geneva. He compiled an Anthologie arabe (Paris 1819) and wrote a Guide de la conversation arabe (Paris and Geneva 1838).