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Maximiliano A. Alarcón y Santón

ماكسيميليانو ألاركون إي سانتون

Notable figure 1880–1933 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 591; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 145 · Second source: Library of Congress Name Authority File: Alarcón y Santón, Maximiliano A. (b. 1880, Albacete; d. 1933, Madrid)

Field: Dialects

Affiliation

Arabic professor; texts in the dialect of Larache (1913)

Biography

Born in La Roda in the province of Albacete, he learned Arabic from Miguel Asín Palacios. He taught colloquial Arabic at the schools of commerce in Málaga (1911) and Barcelona (1912), then Arabic at the universities of Madrid and Salamanca. He published Arabic texts in the colloquial dialect of Larache (Madrid 1913), helped catalogue the Arabic and aljamiado manuscripts of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios in Madrid (1912), and translated al-Turtushi's Siraj al-muluk into Spanish (1930–1931).