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Étienne Hubert

إتيان أوبير

Notable figure 17th century · Source: Johann Fück, Tarikh harakat al-istishraq (Die arabischen Studien in Europa), trans. ʿUmar Lutfi al-ʿAlim, 2nd ed., Dar al-Madar al-Islami, Beirut 2001, p. ٦٧ · Second source: Nil Palabiyik, «Oriental Languages and Scholarly Collaboration in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Étienne Hubert and the Arabic Gospels», Biblia Arabica blog, 28 May 2019; see also her article in Lias 45/1 (2018), pp. 115–146

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Henri IV's physician; taught Arabic in Paris, to Erpenius

Biography

A physician at the court of Henri IV, he taught Arabic in Paris at the Collège Royal, and Isaac Casaubon and Thomas Erpenius were among his pupils. He compiled an Arabic–Turkish–French dictionary from Ottoman sources, which stayed in manuscript in the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris. In 1608 he wrote to Joseph Scaliger about a passage in the Arabic Gospels printed by Raimondi.