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Hippolyte Dulac

هيبوليت دولاك

Notable figure · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 202; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 569 · Second source: IdRef (Sudoc) authority record 241530547: Dulac, Hippolyte (18..-19..), member of the French Institute in Cairo in 1881

From France; worked in Egypt

Field: Phonetics and dialects

Affiliation

Scholar of Upper-Egyptian and Cairene Arabic

Biography

A Frenchman, he was among the first members of the French Archaeological Mission in Cairo in 1881 and devoted himself there to spoken Arabic. He published Arabic tales in the dialect of Upper Egypt (1884) and four tales in the dialect of Cairo (1885) in the Mission's Mémoires.