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Jean-Baptiste Glaire

جان باتيست غلير

Notable figure 1798–1879 · Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, catalogue record: Principes de grammaire arabe (Paris: B. Duprat, 1861); al-Istishraq al-Faransi fi al-Maghrib al-ʿArabi (doctoral thesis, CERIST copy), p. 242 · Second source: A. Boudinhon, Jean-Baptiste Glaire, Catholic Encyclopedia (1909)

Field: Grammar

Affiliation

Author of Principes de grammaire arabe (1861)

Biography

A French priest born in Bordeaux, he taught Hebrew at the Sorbonne (1831–1851) and was dean of the Paris faculty of theology (1841–1851). In Arabic he wrote Principes de grammaire arabe (Paris, 1861), followed by a treatment of the language after the Arab grammarians, with parsing exercises. Most of his work was in Hebrew and the Bible.