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Joseph Halévy
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Joseph Halévy

جوزيف هاليفي

Notable figure 1827–1917 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 219; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 1072 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Halévy, Joseph (1827-1917)

Field: Semitic philology

Affiliation

Semitist; collector of the Sabaean inscriptions of Yemen

Biography

Born in Edirne, he settled in Paris and taught Ethiopic and Sabaean at the École pratique des hautes études (1879–1917). He travelled in Yemen (1869–1870) as far as Najran and collected some 686 inscriptions in the South Arabian script, which he published with commentary in the Journal asiatique (1872–1877). He also wrote on expressions of the Arabic dialect of Damascus (1883) and on Semitic vocabulary and consonants.