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William Marçais

وليم مارسيه

Notable figure 1872–1956 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 285; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1002 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Marçais, William (1872-1956), born Rennes 6 Nov. 1872, died Paris; linguist, Maghribi dialectology, director of the medersas of Tlemcen and Algiers

From France; worked in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Dialectologist of Maghribi Arabic; Tlemcen dialect (1902)

Biography

Born in Rennes, he directed the medersa of Tlemcen (1898–1904) and then that of Algiers, studying the dialects of Tlemcen, the Oran region and Tangier, before teaching at the École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France in Paris; he also lectured in Arabic in Tunis each year. He wrote Le dialecte arabe parlé à Tlemcen (1902), Le dialecte arabe des Ūlād Brāhīm de Saïda (1908) and Textes arabes de Tanger (1911).