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Jean Sauvaget

جان سوفاجيه

Notable figure 1901–1950 · 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), pp. 79–81 · Second source: INHA, AGORHA authority: Sauvaget, Jean (1901-1950)

From France; worked in Syria

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Co-author of rules for editing Arabic texts (1945)

Biography

Born in Niort, he worked at the French Institute in Damascus and became professor at the Collège de France in 1946. With Régis Blachère he wrote the Règles pour éditions et traductions de textes arabes (Paris 1945), short rules for establishing a text, collating manuscripts and annotating, which with Bergsträsser's book became a standard guide to editing and was translated into Arabic.