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José Moreno Nieto
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José Moreno Nieto

خوسيه مورينو نييتو

Notable figure 1825–1882 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 583; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 552 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Moreno Nieto, José (1825-1882)

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Grammarian; author of Gramática de la lengua arábiga (1872)

Biography

Born in Siruela, Badajoz, he graduated in law and philosophy at Madrid (1846) and was appointed professor of Arabic at Granada. He was elected to the Board of Archives and Libraries (1860) and to the Academy of History (1862), and wrote a Grammar of the Arabic Language (Madrid, 1872) and a critical study of the Arab historians of al-Andalus, published by the Academy of History (1862).