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Gaëtan Delphin

غايتان دلفان

Notable figure 1857–1919 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 221; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 513 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Delphin, Gaëtan (1857-1919)

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Teacher of Arabic in Algeria; Jamiʿ al-lataʾif (1891)

Biography

A graduate of the School of Oriental Languages in Paris, he was sent by the French government to Algeria, where he taught literary Arabic and its dialects and directed the médersa of Algiers (1895–1904). He wrote a book to make Arabic easier for French learners (1891) and the reader Jamiʿ al-lataʾif wa-kanz al-zaraʾif (Beirut, 1891), published with Houdas a collection of Arabic manuscript letters with commentary and glossary (1891), and a colloquial story of two students from a village near Oran (1887).