Edmond Destaing
Edmond Destaing | |
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Born | Roset-Fluans (Doubs |
Died |
27 December 1940 68) L'Haÿ-les-Roses | (aged
Occupation |
Scholar Orientalist |
Edmond Destaing (19 January 1872 – 27 December 1940) was a French orientalist and Arabist, specialized in berber languages, first holder of the Chair of Berber at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales.
Biography
A teacher in the Doubs, Destaing moved to Algiers in order to follow the course of the Normal school of Bouzaréah and taught at the Franco-native school of rue Montpensier from 1894. Professor of Natural Sciences and Geography at the Médersa de Tlemcen under the direction of William Marçais and Alfred Bel (1902-1907), he devoted himself from 1905 to the study of the Beni Snous dialect at the Moroccan border, which today still is a work of reference.[1] Appointed director of the newly created Médersa at Saint-Louis in 1907, he took the direction of the Médersa of Algiers in succession to William Marçais in 1910. In 1914, he was assigned the Berber Chair created at the École des Langues Orientales. From 1921, he also taught Maghreb Arabic at the École nationale de la France d'outre-mer. Having contracted malaria in Algeria, he died December 27, 1940 at his home in L'Haÿ-les-Roses.[2]
Works
- 1907: Etude sur le dialecte berbère des Beni-Snous
- 1914: , Paris, E. Leroux.
References
External links
- Edmond Destaing on BiblioMonde
- Edmond Destaing's publications on L'Harmattan