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Jean-Joseph Marcel
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Jean-Joseph Marcel

جان جوزيف مارسيل

Notable figure 1776–1854 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 185; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 999 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Marcel, Jean Joseph (1776-11-24 – 1854-03-11)

From France; worked in Egypt

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; French-Arabic vocabulary of dialects (1837)

Biography

Born in Paris, he learned Arabic from Silvestre de Sacy and Langlès, then went with the French expedition to Egypt as interpreter and director of its press, printing an Arabic alphabet (1798) and the Fables of Luqman (1799) in Cairo. Back in Paris he directed the national printing house, lectured on oriental languages at the Collège de France (1817–1820), and wrote a palaeography of old Arabic scripts (1828) and a French-Arabic vocabulary of the dialects of Algiers, Tunis, Morocco and Egypt with their grammar (1837).