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Name
  
Francis Steingass


Died
  
1903

Books
  
A comprehensive Persian, English dictionary

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.

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. 
  • The Assemblies of Al-Ḥarîri. Translated from the Arabic with Notes Historical and Grammatical, trans. by Thomas Chenery and F. Steingass, Oriental Translation Fund, New Series, 3, 2 vols (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1867-98), (vol. 2).

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