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Émile Galtier

إميل غالتييه

Notable figure 1864–1908 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 212; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 419 · Second source: Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale 6 (1908), pp. 193–196: Nécrologie. Émile Galtier [23 août 1864 – 2 avril 1908]

From France; worked in Algeria and Egypt

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Translator of Futuh al-Bahnasa; Egyptian dialect tales

Biography

He took his degree in Arabic at the Faculty of Letters in Algiers and taught, then became a member of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, where he died. He published Arabic tales in the Egyptian dialect (1905), wrote on unknown or little-known Arabic works and on Coptic Arabic literature, and translated Futuh al-Bahnasa into French, which appeared after his death (Cairo, 1909).