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Auguste Cherbonneau

أوغست شربونو

Notable figure 1813–1882 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 198; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 734 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Cherbonneau, Auguste (1813-1882)

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Arabic teacher in Constantine; French–Arabic dictionary

Biography

He studied Arabic under Silvestre de Sacy and Caussin de Perceval, was sent to teach it in Constantine in Algeria, where he organised its schools and wrote textbooks for them, and was later called to teach Arabic at the École des langues orientales in Paris. He translated the thirtieth maqama of al-Hariri (1845–1846), published the Fables of Luqman with translation and glossary (1847), wrote on Algerian colloquial Arabic (1861), and compiled a two-volume French–Arabic dictionary (Paris, 1876).