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Auguste Cour

أوغست كور

Notable figure 1866–1945 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 257; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 901 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Cour, Auguste (1866-1945), professor at the medersa of Tlemcen

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic, Constantine; on Ibn Zaydun (1920)

Biography

He taught at the medersa of Tlemcen and then held the chair of Arabic at Constantine in Algeria. He compiled a catalogue of the manuscripts in the main libraries of Algeria (1907), and wrote on the political zajal of the time of the Emir ʿAbd al-Qadir (1918) and on a popular song about Constantine. He devoted a book to the poetry of the Andalusian Ibn Zaydun (Constantine, 1920) and published an unedited epistle of his to Abu Bakr ibn al-Aftas (1932).