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Frederic du Pre Thornton

فريدريك دو بري ثورنتون

Notable figure 1841–1903 · 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. 294 · Second source: The Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania), heading «Thornton, Frederic Du Pre, 1841-1903»

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Author of Elementary Arabic: A Grammar (Cambridge 1905)

Biography

He wrote Elementary Arabic: A Grammar as an abridgement of William Wright's grammar and died while it was in the press; Reynold A. Nicholson finished it and brought it out at Cambridge in 1905. It became the head of a teaching series that Nicholson completed with reading books, helped by Anthony Ashley Bevan (1907–1911).