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Francis Gladwin

فرنسيس جلادوين

Notable figure d. 1812 · 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. 39 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Gladwin, Francis (1744?-1812)

From the United Kingdom; worked in India

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Published an Arabic–Persian glossary of drug terms (1793)

Biography

He served the East India Company in Bengal and worked mainly on Persian and the languages of India. The thesis cites him for the glossary of drug names in Arabic, Persian and Hindustani by Nur al-Din Muhammad ʿAbd Allah Shirazi, which he published in Calcutta in 1793, one of the first Arabic terminological glossaries printed in India.