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Born 7 November 1892 Lunéville Died 13 April 1926, Rabat, Morocco People also search for René Basset, André Basset, Henri Terrasse | ||
Henri Basset (7 November 1892 – 13 April 1926) was a 20th-century French historian, orientalist and linguist and a Berberologist.
Biography
The son of René Basset and elder brother of André Basset, Henri Basset joined the École Normale Supérieure in 1912. A teacher at the "École supérieure de langue arabe et de dialectes berbères" from 1916, he passed his doctorate in 1920 at the faculté de Lettres of Algiers with two works entitled Essai sur la littérature des Berbères and Le culte des grottes au Maroc and was appointed the same year deputy director of the 'Institut des hautes études marocaines.
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