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Jean-François Demange

جان فرانسوا ديمانج

Notable figure 19th 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. ١٥٤ · Second source: «Арабистика (1818–1917)», in Азиатский музей – Ленинградское отделение Института востоковедения АН СССР (Москва: Наука, 1972), pp. 270–271; see also Русский биографический словарь, vol. 22, s.v. Шармуа

From France; worked in Russia

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Professor of Arabic in St Petersburg from 1817

Biography

A Frenchman among Silvestre de Sacy's best pupils, he was recommended by his teacher, with Charmoy, for the chairs of Arabic and Persian at the Pedagogical Institute in St Petersburg, and took up his post on 1 September 1817. He taught Arabic language and letters there, the institute becoming a university in 1819, until Senkovsky succeeded him in 1822. He then moved to the school of Oriental languages founded at the Russian foreign ministry in 1823 and taught Arabic there.