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Pablo Lozano y Casela

بابلو لوثانو إي كاسيلا

Notable figure 1749–1822 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 953 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Lozano y Casela, Pablo (17..-18..)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the Arabic Tablet of Cebes (1793)

Biography

Born in Madrid, he mastered Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic and worked at the Royal Library in Madrid. He published the Arabic version of the Tablet of Cebes ascribed to Ibn Miskawayh, with a Spanish translation (Madrid, 1793), and explained the Arabic inscriptions of the Alhambra and Córdoba in the Antigüedades árabes de España issued by the Academy of San Fernando (part two, 1804). He also wrote a book on Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic poetry.