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Constantin Louis Sonneck

قسطنطين لويس سونك

Notable figure 1849–1904 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 208; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 702 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Sonneck, Constantin (1849-1904)

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Collector of Maghrebi poetry; Chants arabes du Maghreb

Biography

Born in Paris, he served as a military interpreter in Algeria, directed the higher school of Islamic studies at Constantine and taught at the Ecole coloniale in Paris. He collected malhun poems in Maghrebi Arabic and published them with the Arabic text, a French translation and notes as Chants arabes du Maghreb (Paris, 1902–1904). Earlier he had published six Arabic songs in the Maghrebi dialect in the Journal asiatique (1899).