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Antonin Goguyer
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Antonin Goguyer

أنطونان غوغيه

Notable figure 1846–1909 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 202; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 432 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Goguyer, Antonin (1846-1909)

Field: Grammar and morphology

Affiliation

French translator of Qatr al-nada and Ibn Malik's Alfiyya

Biography

Born at Dun-le-Palestel in central France, he worked as an engineer and interpreter and died in Muscat. He translated Ibn Hisham's Qatr al-nada wa-ball al-sada into French with the Arabic text and notes on inflection and syntax (Leiden, 1887), and then Ibn Malik's Alfiyya with the Lamiyya, a translation, notes and a glossary of grammatical terms (Beirut, 1888).