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Étienne Marc Quatremère
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Étienne Marc Quatremère

إتيان كاترمير

Notable figure 1782–1857 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 184; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 842 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Quatremère, Étienne (1782-1857)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddima and al-Maydani's proverbs

Biography

Born in Paris, he learned Oriental languages from de Sacy, taught Hebrew and Syriac at the Collège de France (1808) and Persian at the School of Oriental Languages (1832), and was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions (1815). He wrote on the life and works of al-Maydani (1828) and published selections of his proverbs with a translation (1837), translated al-Maqrizi's al-Suluk with linguistic and historical notes (1837–1845), edited Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddima in three volumes (1858), wrote on the Kitab al-Aghani (1837), and was compiling a dictionary when he died.