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Jean-François Bled de Braine

جان فرنسوا بليد دو برين

Notable figure 1801–1849 · Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Bled de Braine, Jean-François (1801-1849); al-Istishraq al-Faransi fi al-Maghrib al-ʿArabi (doctoral thesis, CERIST copy), p. 240 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, catalogue record: Cours synthétique, analytique et pratique de langue arabe (Paris: Théophile Barrois, 1846)

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Author of a course in the spoken Arabic of North Africa

Biography

A French teacher at the college of Algiers, later assistant primary inspector at Constantine, who died at Skikda. He wrote an Arabic course in twelve lessons teaching the dialects of Algiers, Morocco, Tunis and Egypt without a master, and Clef de la prononciation des idiomes de l'Algérie, a primer of Arabic reading (1848).