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Franz von Dombay

فرانتس فون دومباي

Notable figure 1758–1810 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 626; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 535 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Dombay, Franz Lorenz von (1758-1810)

From Austria; worked in Morocco

Field: Dialectology

Affiliation

Grammar of Moroccan Arabic with a glossary (1800)

Biography

A graduate of the School of Oriental Languages in Vienna, he joined the mission Emperor Joseph II sent to Morocco (1783), then served at the Austrian embassy in Madrid and as a translator in Zagreb. He wrote a grammar of the colloquial Arabic of Morocco with a Latin–Moroccan Arabic vocabulary (Vienna, 1800), and translated Ibn Abi Zarʿ's al-Anis al-mutrib into German (Zagreb, 1794–1797).