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Augustin Rodet

أوغسطين روديه

Notable figure 1828–1906 · 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. 308 · Second source: Open-access chapter on the Jesuit Arabic Bible (Augustin Rodet and Ibrahim al-Yaziji), Taylor & Francis

From France; worked in Lebanon

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

With Belot, the anthology Nukhab al-mulah (Beirut 1870–1874)

Biography

A French Jesuit, he learned Arabic in Algeria and went on to Syria, where he headed the school at Ghazir (1868) before moving to Beirut. With Jean-Baptiste Belot he produced Nukhab al-mulah, a fully vowelled anthology of Arabic literature (Beirut 1870–1874), which reached twenty editions in Belot's lifetime; Belot's Arabic-French dictionary was first meant as an aid to reading it and the other books of the Catholic Press. He also worked with Ibrahim al-Yaziji on the Jesuit Arabic Bible.