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Jean-Baptiste-André Grangeret de Lagrange

جان باتيست غرانجريه دي لاغرانج

Notable figure 1790–1859 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 187; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 547 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Grangeret de Lagrange, Jean-Baptiste-André (1790-1859)

Field: Arabic literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of Arabic poetry; Anthologie arabe (1828)

Biography

A pupil of Silvestre de Sacy, he corrected the Arabic printing at the Imprimerie royale in Paris (1830) and later worked as librarian at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. He translated selections from Ibn al-Farid and al-Mutanabbi into French, wrote in defence of Arabic poetry, and gathered an anthology of it with French translation, the Anthologie arabe (Paris 1828); with Kosegarten he published part of al-Suyuti's al-Marj al-nadir.