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Léon Bercher

ليون بيرشيه

Notable figure 1889–1955 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 273; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 318 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Bercher, Léon (1889-1955)

From France; worked in Tunisia

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Translator of Ibn Hazm's Tawq al-hamama into French (1949)

Biography

Born in Belfort, he worked in Tunis, where he became director of Arabic studies at the Institut des hautes études. He translated the thirty-fifth maqama of al-Hariri (1922), wrote on Abu al-ʿAla al-Maʿarri (1944), and then translated Ibn Hazm's Tawq al-hamama into French (Algiers, 1949), with a study of its text. He also compiled an Arabic–French dictionary of modern press usage (1938, with later editions), continuing Belot. He also translated works of law and ethics.