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Alfred Durand
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Alfred Durand

ألفرد ديران

Notable figure 1858–1928 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1065; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 559 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Durand, Alfred (1858-1928)

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Grammarian; co-author of Cheikho's Latin Arabic grammar

Biography

Born in France in 1858, he died in Lyon. With Louis Cheikho he published a Latin grammar of Arabic, Elementa grammaticae arabicae, with a reader and a glossary, about 486 pages (Beirut, Catholic Press), and wrote on the pronoun in Egyptian and the Semitic languages (Journal asiatique, 1895).