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Donat Vernier

دونا فرنييه

Notable figure 1838–1917 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1064; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 790 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Vernier, Donat (1838-1917)

From France; worked in Lebanon

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

Author of Grammaire arabe (Beirut, 1891–1892)

Biography

Born in Passavant (Doubs) in France, he spent his working life in Syria and died in Beirut. He drew up a table of the forms of the Arabic language (1869), then wrote a French grammar of Arabic based on the primary sources, in two volumes of some 1,250 pages (Imprimerie catholique, Beirut, 1891–1892), and left an Arabic grammar in manuscript.