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Harvey Porter

هارفي بورتر

Notable figure 1845–1923 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 997; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 284 · Second source: American University of Beirut Libraries, online exhibit: Harvey Porter (1845-1923)

From the United States; worked in Lebanon

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; English-Arabic dictionary with Wortabet

Biography

Born in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, he came to Beirut in 1870, studied Arabic there and taught history and philosophy at the Syrian Protestant College (later the American University of Beirut) until 1914. He wrote a world history in Arabic, al-Manhaj al-qawim (Beirut, 1884), worked with John Wortabet on his English-Arabic and Arabic-English dictionary and later revised and enlarged it, and compiled an English-Arabic dictionary for schools (1903).