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Henri Lammens
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Henri Lammens

هنري لامنس

Notable figure 1862–1937 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1068; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 940 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Lammens, Henri (1862-1937), born Ghent 1 July 1862, died Beirut 24 April 1937

From Belgium; worked in Lebanon

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of Faraʾid al-lugha fi al-furuq (1889)

Biography

Born in Ghent, he learned Arabic at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut and later taught rhetoric (bayan) there. His first book was Faraʾid al-lugha fi al-furuq, a dictionary of distinctions between near-synonyms (Beirut 1889), followed by remarks on French words derived from Arabic (1890). He read the Kitab al-Aghani over and over, pen in hand.