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Georges Salmon

جورج سالمون

Notable figure 1876–1906 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 210; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 663 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Salmon, Georges (1876-1906)

From France; worked in Egypt and Morocco

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Translated al-Maʿarri; edited al-Khatib on Baghdad

Biography

A graduate of the School of Oriental Languages and the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, he was a member of the French Institute in Cairo and then led the French scientific mission in Tangier until his death there. He edited and translated the topographical introduction to al-Khatib al-Baghdadi's Tarikh Baghdad (Paris, 1904), translated selections of Abu l-ʿAla al-Maʿarri's poems and letters into French, and wrote on Arabic and Berber plant names (1906).