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Albert Gateau

ألبير غاتو

Notable figure 1902–1949 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 266; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 379 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Gâteau, Albert (1902-1949)

From France; worked in Morocco

Field: Lexicon and terminology

Affiliation

Editor of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hakam; Tunisian maritime vocabulary

Biography

He taught at the Institute of Higher Studies in Rabat. He was the first to publish the section of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hakam's work on the conquest of North Africa and Spain, with a French translation (Tunis, 1931–1939), and re-edited it from the British Museum manuscript with a critical study (Paris, 1948). He studied the sailing vocabulary of Tunisian Arabic, writing an introduction to Tunisian maritime terminology (1946) and a study of nautical instruments in Tunisian (1950).