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José Antonio Banqueri

خوسيه أنطونيو بانكيري

Notable figure 1745–1818 · Source: José Luis Soto Pérez, «Un arabista del siglo XVIII: el franciscano Fr. José Banqueri, T.O.R. (1745-1818)», Cuadernos de Estudios del Siglo XVIII 7-8 (1980), 147–178 · Second source: Wellcome Collection: Libro de agricultura, translated by José Antonio Banqueri (Madrid, 1802)

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Put Ibn al-ʿAwwam's Kitab al-filaha into Spanish (1802)

Biography

A Franciscan born at Torbiscón in Granada, he studied Arabic at Lisbon from 1773 under Juan de Sousa, taught Oriental languages at Granada, and from 1779 worked beside Miguel Casiri in Madrid, becoming his favourite pupil. He was made a corresponding member of the Academy of History (1783) and Arabic translator at the Royal Library (1784). He translated and annotated Ibn al-ʿAwwam's Kitab al-filaha, printed with the Arabic in parallel in two volumes (Madrid 1802), with an alphabetical catalogue of the Arabic plant names and their translation.