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Adrien Barthélemy

أدريان بارتيلمي

Notable figure 1859–1949 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 205; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 202 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Barthélemy, Adrien (1859-1949)

From France; worked in Syria

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; Arabic–French dictionary of Syrian dialects

Biography

Born in Paris, he served in the French consular service in the Levant and then taught at the School of Oriental Languages in Paris. He wrote on the colloquial of Aleppo and on the dialect of Jerusalem (Journal asiatique, 1906–1908). His Dictionnaire arabe-français of the dialects of Aleppo, Damascus, Lebanon and Jerusalem appeared in five fascicles (Paris, 1935–1954), the fourth and fifth edited by Henri Fleisch, with a supplementary fascicle in 1969.