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Rubens Duval
Image: P. Dujardin (heliogravure; KU Leuven print collection PA02082), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Rubens Duval

روبنس دوفال

Notable figure 1839–1911 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), p. 38 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND 11625873X: Duval, Rubens (1839-1911)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Editor of Bar Bahlul's Syriac–Arabic lexicon

Biography

Born in Paris, he held the chair of Aramaic languages at the Collège de France from 1895. He edited the lexicon of al-Hasan ibn Bahlul, a Syriac dictionary whose entries are explained in Arabic, publishing it in Paris between 1888 and 1901 in three volumes and preserving much tenth-century Arabic vocabulary.