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Auguste-François-Julien Herbin

أوغست فرانسوا جوليان هربن

Notable figure 1783–1806 · 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 authority record: Herbin, Auguste François Julien (1783-1806)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Arabic–French and French–Arabic dictionary in two parts

Biography

He learned Arabic in Paris and died at twenty-three. The thesis lists him among the French lexicographers for an Arabic–French and French–Arabic dictionary in two parts. He also wrote a grammar of modern Arabic, Développements des principes de la langue arabe moderne (Paris 1803).