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Fulgence Fresnel

فولجانس فرينيل

Notable figure 1795–1855 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 187; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 791 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Fresnel, Fulgence (1795-1855)

From France; worked in Saudi Arabia and Iraq

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of al-Shanfara's Lamiyya (1834)

Biography

A graduate of the School of Oriental Languages, he became French consul in Jeddah and later led an archaeological mission to Mesopotamia (1851), dying in Baghdad. He translated al-Shanfara's Lamiyyat al-ʿArab into French (1834), wrote letters on the history of the Arabs before Islam (1836–1838), and studied the speech and the Himyaritic inscriptions of southern Arabia (1845).