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Nicolas Perron

نيكولا بيرون

Notable figure 1798–1876 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 195; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 246 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Perron, Nicolas (1798-1876)

From France; worked in Egypt and Algeria

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Physician and translator; Femmes arabes (1858)

Biography

A physician trained in Paris, he directed the medical school in Cairo and then the Arab-French college in Algiers. He translated into French poems of Tarafa and al-Mutalammis (1841), Muhammad ibn ʿUmar al-Tunisi's travels to Darfur and Wadai, and Abu Bakr al-Baytar's Kamil al-sinaʿatayn (1852–1860), and wrote Femmes arabes avant et depuis l'islamisme (1858).