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George Edward Post
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George Edward Post

جورج إدوارد بوست

Notable figure 1838–1909 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 994; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 291 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Post, George Edward (1838–1909)

From the United States; worked in Lebanon

Field: Scientific terminology

Affiliation

Wrote medical and botanical textbooks in Arabic in Beirut

Biography

Born in New York, he studied medicine there, came to Syria in 1863 and learned Arabic in Tripoli. He taught botany and surgery at the Syrian Protestant College (later the American University of Beirut) and wrote Arabic textbooks for its students on anatomy, surgery, zoology and botany, among them al-Misbah al-waddah fi sinaʿat al-jarrah (1873); he also founded the Arabic journal al-Tabib. His Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai gained, in its second edition, a table of some 1,500 Arabic plant names, classical and colloquial.