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Bernardino González

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Notable figure c. 1665–1735 · Source: Abdel Wahab El Imrani, «Localización de nuevos manuscritos del Intérprete arábigo de Bernardino González», Anaquel de Estudios Árabes 14 (2003), pp. 129–135; Ana María Cabo González and Álvaro Suárez Ortiz, «Los estudios árabes en la ciudad de Sevilla y en su Universidad», Philologia Hispalensis 31/1 (2017), section 3.6 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: González, Bernardino (1665?-1735?)

From Spain; worked in Syria and Palestine

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; Intérprete arábigo and an Arabic grammar

Biography

He studied Arabic for two years (1694–1696) at the Trilingual College in Seville, then spent sixteen years in Syria and Palestine, teaching Arabic three times in Damascus. There he completed a dictionary begun by his teacher José de León: the Intérprete arábigo castellano, in three parts – Castilian–Arabic, a short Arabic–Latin glossary of philosophical and theological terms, and Arabic–Castilian in the order of the Arabic alphabet – compiled with two Damascene teachers and Golius's Lexicon at hand. He also wrote an Epítome de la gramática arábiga (1719). Both stayed in manuscript, spread by copies, until the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs published them in 2005 with a study by Ramón Lourido Díaz; Miguel Asín Palacios had first described the dictionary in 1901.