Francis Joseph Steingass

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Francis Joseph Steingass (March 16, 1825, Frankfurt am Main – January 1903) was a British linguist and orientalist of German Jewish descent. He completed his education, including the Ph.D., in Munich, Germany. Later he was professor of Modern Languages at Birmingham, Professor of Modern Languages and Resident Lecturer on Arabic Languages, Literature & Law at the Oriental Institute, Woking. He knew 14 languages, including Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. He published a number of Persian-English, Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionaries.^[1]

Works

Francis Joseph Steingass (1884). The student's Arabic-English dictionary. W.H. Allen. p. 1242. Retrieved 2011-07-06.
Francis Joseph Steingass (1882). English-Arabic dictionary: for the use of both travellers and students. W.H. Allen. p. 466. Retrieved 2011-07-06.
Francis Joseph Steingass (1882). English-Arabic dictionary: for the use of both travellers and students. W.H. Allen. p. 466. Retrieved 2011-07-06.
Francis Joseph Steingass (1882). English-Arabic dictionary. Retrieved 2011-07-06.

References

↑ Author's biography sketch in the reprint of his Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (ISBN 81-215-0711-1)

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Name	Steingass, Francis Joseph
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Short description	British linguist
Date of birth	March 16, 1825
Place of birth
Date of death	1903
Place of death

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