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Jean-Jacques Hess

جان جاك هس

Notable figure 1866–1949 · 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. 492 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Hess von Wyss, Jean Jacques (1866-1949)

Field: Phonology and dialects

Affiliation

Recorded Bedouin names and speech of central Arabia

Biography

He taught at Fribourg and from 1918 held the chair of Oriental languages at Zurich. He recorded personal and tribal names and the speech of the Bedouin of central Arabia from their own mouths. The thesis notes that Fischer, in his dictionary, relied on Hess's report of a plant name heard from a man of ʿUtayba to settle its correct form.