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Julio Cortés Soroa

خوليو كورتيس

Notable figure 1924–2009 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 495 · Second source: Library of Congress, name authority record: Cortés, Julio (note: d. Apr. 13, 2009, aged 85, professor emeritus of Arabic at UNC)

From Spain; worked in Syria and the United States

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; Diccionario de árabe culto moderno (1996)

Biography

Born in Bilbao, he took his doctorate at Madrid (1965) with a thesis on the fourth verb form, af'ala, in twentieth-century writers. He directed the Spanish cultural centre in Damascus, taught Arabic and Spanish at the University of North Carolina from 1968, and advised on the Arabic etymologies of the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary (1972, 1976). He later translated the Qur'an into Spanish (1979) and compiled the Arabic–Spanish Diccionario de árabe culto moderno (Madrid, 1996).