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Joseph Heury

جوزيف هوري

Notable figure 1824–1897 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1062; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1088 · Second source: J.-B. Belot, Dictionnaire français-arabe, vol. 1 (Beirut, 1913), preface on the Vocabulaire français-arabe of Father Joseph Heury

From France; worked in Lebanon

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Compiler of a French–Arabic vocabulary (Beirut, 1857)

Biography

He taught at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut and died at Zahle. He compiled a French–Arabic vocabulary, al-Mufradat al-durriyya fi al-lughatayn al-faransiyya wa-al-ʿarabiyya (1857), whose second edition ran to 914 pages (1867) and whose fifth appeared in 1893; Belot built his large French–Arabic dictionary on it.