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Victor de Coppier

فيكتور دو كوبييه

Notable figure 1836–1904 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1062; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 546 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Coppier, Victor de (1836-1904)

From France; worked in Lebanon

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Translator of the Diwan of al-Khansaʾ into French (1889)

Biography

A Frenchman who joined the Jesuits in 1853, he lived for many years in Beirut and died there. He translated the diwan of al-Khansaʾ into French with its Arabic text, adding unpublished fragments of al-Khirniq, the sister of Tarafa (Imprimerie Catholique, Beirut, 1889). Some of his other French books were put into Arabic by Khalil al-Badawi and Rashid al-Shartuni.