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Théodore Roland de Bussy

رولاند دي بسي

Notable figure 1810–1873 · 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. 208 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Roland de Bussy, Théodore (1810-1873), director of the army printing house in Algiers

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Dialects

Affiliation

L'Idiome d'Alger, French-Arabic dictionaries (1838)

Biography

He ran the printing house of the French army in Algiers from 1831 to 1871 and compiled, for the colloquial Arabic of the Algerian coast, L'Idiome d'Alger (1838), with French-Arabic and Arabic-French dictionaries, a grammar sketch and dialogues, followed by a small dictionary and a vocabulary that were reprinted. Dozy counted his dictionary among those of the modern language that help to read medieval Arabic.