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Amélie-Marie Goichon

أميلي ماري غواشون

Notable figure 1894–1977 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 309; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 420 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Goichon, Amélie-Marie (1894-1977)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Compiler of Avicenna's philosophical lexicon (1938)

Biography

Born in Poitiers, she took a licence in Arabic literature at Bordeaux, the higher diploma in Arabic studies at the Sorbonne and a doctorate from the University of Paris (1938). She was librarian of the Paris faculty of medicine and taught the history and civilisation of the modern Arab countries at the University of Paris (1959–1975). She compiled the Lexique de la langue philosophique d'Ibn Sina (1938), compared the vocabularies of Aristotle and Ibn Sina, and translated al-Isharat wa-l-tanbihat into French.