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Étienne Combe

إتيين كومب

Notable figure 1881–1962 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 885; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 920 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Combe, Etienne (1881-1962)

From Switzerland; worked in Egypt

Field: Arabic epigraphy

Affiliation

Co-editor, Répertoire chronologique d'épigraphie arabe

Biography

He studied theology in Paris and worked on Assyriology, then after 1914 turned to Arabic antiquities and the history of Alexandria, directing its municipal library (1916–1943) and then the university library, and lecturing on Arabic epigraphy in the Faculty of Arts there. With Jean Sauvaget and Gaston Wiet he directed the Répertoire chronologique d'épigraphie arabe, published by the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo (1931–1956), and published Arabic inscriptions in the Alexandria museum.