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Eugenio Griffini
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Eugenio Griffini

أوجينيو غريفيني

Notable figure 1878–1925 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 370; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 411 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Griffini, Eugenio (1878-1925)

From Italy; worked in Egypt and Libya

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of al-Akhtal (1907); Tripoli Arabic glossary

Biography

Born in Milan, he taught himself Arabic as a boy and then qualified in it at the Oriental Institute in Naples. He taught Arabic at the University of Milan and then directed the Royal Library in Cairo (1920–1925) until his death. He edited the Diwan of al-Akhtal from a manuscript he found in Yemen (Beirut, 1907), compiled an Italian glossary of the Arabic of Tripoli of some ten thousand words with a sketch of its grammar (Milan, 1913), and catalogued the Yemeni manuscripts of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.