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Louis-Jacques Bresnier

لويس جاك برينييه

Notable figure 1814–1869 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 192; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 254 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Bresnier, Louis-Jacques (1814-1869)

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Arabic teacher in Algiers; Ajurrumiyya translation (1846)

Biography

He began as a compositor in a printing house, then studied under Silvestre de Sacy and was sent to Algiers, where he held the chair of Arabic from 1836 for thirty-three years and trained teachers and interpreters. There he published theoretical and practical courses of Arabic (1846–1867) and a literary chrestomathy in the colloquial, translated Ibn Ajurrum's Ajurrumiyya into French with a glossary (1846), and wrote on Arabic script, reading and writing.