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Jean-Baptiste Du Val

جان باتيست دوفال

Notable figure c. 1570–1632 · 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. ٧٢ ح١، ٧٩ · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, data.bnf.fr: Jean Baptiste Du Val (b. c. 1570, Auxerre; d. 20 November 1632), secrétaire-interprète du roi pour les langues orientales; lists Dictionarium latino-arabicum Davidis regis (1632)

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Latin–Arabic dictionary of the Psalter's words (1632)

Biography

A lawyer from Auxerre, he became secretary and interpreter to the king for Oriental languages at the Paris court. He compiled the Dictionarium latino-arabicum Davidis regis (1632), an alphabetical index of the Latin words of the Psalter printed in Arabic by Victor Scialac and Gabriel Sionita in 1614, with their Arabic equivalents. He meant it as a dictionary for writing and speech; Fück calls it a curiosity.