René Basset

For other uses, see disambiguation.
René Basset

Cover of the Chinese Muslim prayers book
Born 24 July 1855
Lunéville
Died 4 January 1924(1924-01-04) (aged 68)
Algiers
Occupation Linguist

René Basset (24 July 1855 – 4 January 1924) was a French orientalist, specialist of Arabic and Berber languages.

Biography

René Basset was the first director of the "École des lettres d'Alger"[1] created in 1879[1] during the French colonisation of Algeria.

A member of the société Asiatique of Paris as well as those of Leipzig and Florence, he collaborated with the Journal Asiatique and studied Chinese Islam.

André Basset and Henri Basset were his sons.

Publications

Honours

References

  1. 1 2 L'Économie, entre sciences humaines et sciences de la nature. Revue de l'Histoire des sciences humaines. 7. Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses universitaires du Septentrion. 2002. p. 197. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  2. http://archive.org/details/NotesDeLexicographieBerbre

Bibliography

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/17/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.