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Louis-Xavier Abougit

لويس كزافييه أبوجي

Notable figure 1819–1895 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1061; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 139 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Abougit, Louis-Xavier (1819-1895)

From France; worked in Lebanon

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Arabic teacher in Lebanon; author of a grammar (1862)

Biography

Born in Le Puy, France, he went to Lebanon in 1849, learned Arabic there, and stayed until his death at Ghazir. He wrote school books, among them Usul al-qawaʿid al-ʿarabiyya (1862), a French spelling book (1856) and a short geography (1886), published by the Catholic Press.