Edmond Destaing

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Edmond Destaing
Born 19 January 1872
Roset-Fluans (Doubs)
Died 27 December 1940(1940-12-27) (aged 68)
L'Haÿ-les-Roses
Occupation Scholar
Orientalist

Edmond Destaing (19 January 1872 – 27 December 1940) was a French orientalist Arabist, Berberologist, and first holder of the Chair of Berber at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales.

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Biography

Destaing, initially a teacher in Doubs, moved to Algiers in order to follow the course of the Normal school of Bouzaréah. He taught at the Franco-native school of rue Montpensier from 1894. He served as Professor of Natural Sciences and Geography at the Médersa de Tlemcen  (fr ) under the direction of William Marçais and Alfred Bel (1902-1907), concentrating (beginning 1905) on the study of the Beni Snous dialect at the Moroccan border. His resulting translation dictionary is still a work of reference. [1]

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References

  1. ↑ Destaing, Edmond. Dictionnaire français-berbère, dialecte des Beni Snous, Paris, Leroux, 1914.
  2. ↑ Claude Lefébure, « Destaing, Edmond », in François Pouillon (dir.), Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française, Paris, Karthala, 2008, p. 298-299.
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