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Albert de Biberstein Kazimirski

ألبر كازيميرسكي

Notable figure 1808–1887 · 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. 43 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Albert Kazimirski Biberstein (1808-1887)

From Poland; worked in France

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of the Dictionnaire arabe-français

Biography

Born in Korchów in Poland, he settled in France. He compiled the two large volumes of the Dictionnaire arabe-français (Paris 1846–1860), covering the roots of Arabic and their derivatives in literary and colloquial use and in the dialects of Algiers and Morocco, with Freytag's lexicon as a guide. He also translated the Qurʾan into French (Paris 1840), a version that became widely read.