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Francisco Codera y Zaidín
Image: Manuel Compañy (published in Nuestro Tiempo IV, no. 46, 1904), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Francisco Codera y Zaidín

فرانثيسكو كوديرا

Notable figure 1836–1917 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 588; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 782 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Codera y Zaydín, Francisco (1836-1917)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic at Madrid; Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana

Biography

Born in Fonz in Aragon, he studied Latin, Greek and Hebrew and then Arabic, which he perfected on a journey to North Africa. He succeeded Gayangos in the chair of Arabic at the University of Madrid, gathered his students at his own house and paid them from his salary, and so trained the generation of Spanish Arabic scholars that included Julián Ribera. With them he published the ten-volume Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana (1882–1895) from manuscripts of the Escorial, and he wrote on Andalusian coinage.