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Henri Fleisch

هنري فليش

Notable figure 1904–1985 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1078; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 800 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Fleisch, Henri (1904-1985), born Jonvelle (Haute-Saône), died Lebanon 10 Feb. 1985; philologist and grammarian, Université Saint-Joseph

From France; worked in Lebanon

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Grammarian; author of the Traité de philologie arabe

Biography

Born in Jonvelle (Haute-Saône), he took his doctorate in letters at the Sorbonne and taught Semitic, and above all Arabic, philology at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. He wrote an Introduction à l'étude des langues sémitiques (1947), L'arabe classique (1956; 2nd ed. 1968), the Traité de philologie arabe (1961–1979) and studies of Arabic phonetics (1949–1950); he completed the publication of Adrien Barthélemy's Arabic–French dictionary and described the dialects of Zahle, Shhim and Kfar Sghab.