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Auguste Martin

أوغست مارتان

Notable figure 1817–1893 · Source: Alain Messaoudi, Les arabisants et la France coloniale. Annexes (ENS Éditions, 2015), notice Martin, Auguste Antoine; al-Istishraq al-Faransi fi al-Maghrib al-ʿArabi (doctoral thesis, CERIST copy), p. 240 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, catalogue record: Dialogues arabes-français (Paris: T. Barrois, 1847)

From France; worked in Algeria

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Held the Arabic chair at Constantine; Dialogues (1847)

Biography

Auguste Antoine Martin, a Frenchman born in Aleppo to a merchant from Saint-Tropez and a mother native to the city, died at Constantine. A military interpreter in Algeria from 1837 and principal interpreter at Constantine from 1853, he later held the Arabic chair there. He wrote Dialogues arabes-français (1847), translated selections of La Fontaine into spoken Arabic with Prudent Vignard (1854), and wrote an abridged history of France in Arabic (1863).