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Pierre Paul Émile Guigues

بيير بول إميل غيغ

Notable figure 1868–1930 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 238; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 465 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Guigues, Pierre Paul Émile (1868-1930)

From France; worked in Lebanon

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Pharmacist; Arabic–French drug-name glossaries (1903)

Biography

Born in Embrun in south-eastern France, he graduated from the University of Paris and became a professor at the French Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Beirut, where he died. He edited and translated al-Hawi fi ʿilm al-tadawi of Najm al-Din Mahmud al-Shirazi (Beirut, 1903). To it he added two glossaries of drug names, Arabic–French and French–Arabic, and a historical glossary of words borrowed from Arabic; this was his doctoral thesis in pharmacy. He also edited and translated al-Razi's Burʾ al-saʿa (1904) and studied the Arabic names in Ibn Sarabiyun's book of simple drugs (Journal asiatique, 1905).