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Esteban Lator

إستيبان لاتور

Notable figure b. 1904 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 3, p. 1079; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 936 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Lator, Stefan (born 1904)

From Spain; worked in Lebanon and Italy

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Arabic teacher; Materiale di grammatica araba (1942)

Biography

His full name was Alejandro Esteban Lator Ros; he taught at the Institute of Oriental Letters in Beirut. For students of Arabic he compiled an Arabic reader (Rome, 1941), Materiale di grammatica araba (Rome, 1942) and a course in spoken Arabic, Btihki ʿarabi? (Beirut, Imprimerie catholique, 1950; 2nd ed. 1966), and he published Ibn Sabʿin's Budd al-ʿarif in al-Andalus (1944).