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Patricio de la Torre

باتريسيو دي لا توري

Notable figure 1760–1819 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 581; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 548 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Torre, Patricio de la (1760-1819)

From Spain; worked in Morocco

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; a Castilian–Arabic vocabulary of Morocco

Biography

Born in Orgaz near Toledo, he studied at the Escorial school and in Madrid, where he taught Arabic from 1787. From 1797 to 1803 he lived in Morocco, in Tangier and Fez, gathering its Arabic vocabulary for a new edition of Pedro de Alcalá's dictionary, and in 1803 he was elected to the Royal Academy of History in Madrid. His works stayed in manuscript: an Arabic grammar, Moroccan Arabic proverbs, and a Castilian–Arabic vocabulary published only recently.