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Gaston Wiet
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Gaston Wiet

غاستون فييت

Notable figure 1887–1971 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 299; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 827 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Wiet, Gaston (1887-1971)

From France; worked in Egypt

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Taught Arabic literature in Cairo; translated modern writers

Biography

He graduated from the School of Oriental Languages in Paris in classical and Maghribi Arabic, Turkish and Persian, worked at the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo (1909–1911), then taught Arabic at Lyon (1911) and Arabic literature at the Egyptian University (1912), lecturing in Arabic. He helped found La Revue du Caire (1938) and directed it, publishing in it more than eighty studies and translations of the best-known modern Arab writers, and later became professor at the Collège de France.