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Joseph Desparmet

جوزيف ديسبارمي

Notable figure 1863–1942 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 253; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 563 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Desparmet, Joseph (1863-1942)

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Folk literature and dialect

Affiliation

Scholar of Algerian popular poetry, song and dialect

Biography

He taught at the lycée in Algiers and held the agrégation in Latin, Greek and Arabic. He wrote on the modern Arabic poetry of Blida and its metres (1905) and on Algerian popular songs from 1830 to 1914 (1932–1939), compiled with William Marçais a collection on North Africa (1913), and wrote widely on Algerian customs.