Albert Kazimirski Biberstein — Wikipedia

Albert (Wojciech in Polish so Adalbert in French) ^{[ first ]} Félix Ignace Kazimirski or Albin De Biberstein , born the November 20, 1808 in Korchów Pierwszy, near Lublin in Poland, in a Catholic-Orthodox family, and died the June 22, 1887 ^{[ 2 ]} in the 7 ^{It is} Arrondissement of Paris, is an Arabian orientalist of Polish origin, author of an Arab-French Bilingual Dictionary and several Arab-French translations, notably the Koran.

Albert Félix Ignace Kazimirski comes from the German family Biberstein, a branch of which settles in Poland in the Middle Ages, subsequently transforming into a clan and causing many younger lines, including that of the Kazimirski ^{[ 3 ]} .

He was baptized. He learned oriental languages ​​from the universities of Warsaw and then from Berlin. At the Faculty of Catholic Theology, he learned Hebrew with the Italian abbot Luigi Chiarini ^{[ 3 ]} .

He participated in the November 1830 insurgency of the Kingdom of Congress against the Tsar of Russia Nicolas I. Like many other Poles, after the defeat of the Polish army in September 1831 , he chooses to go into exile in France, where he goes with the historian Joachim Lelewel.

In 1834, alongside Adam Mickiewicz and Joseph Bohdan Zaleski, he founded the Slave company ( Slavic Society ) from Paris. With his friend compatriot Ropelowski, he wrote and published a Polish-French dictionary as well as a Polono-Francais ^{[ 4 ]} .

Then he became a Drogman, that is to say interpreter of the representatives of France in the scales of the Levant, and is attached to the mission of Persian.

Active member of the Committee of the Polish Historical and Literary Society in Paris, in 1836, he was involved in co -founding a Catholic review of Polish immigrants in France.

Responsible for revising the second translation of the Koran in French, that of Claude-Étienne Savary (1783), he made his own translation, published for the first time in 1840, inspired by the previous works of the Italian Clerc Louis Marracci (1698) and English George Sale (1734).

Very distinguished polyglot, Kazimirski entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1851 for which he was secretary and interpreter ^{[ 5 ]} .

He died at his home on Boulevard des Invalides at the age of 78.

• The Koran, a new translation made on the Arabic text / by M. Kazimirski, performer of the French Legation in Persia, 1840, 1841, 1844,1865, Paris, Charpentier, 511 pp. ; 1970, Garnier Flammarion, with a preface by Mohammed Arkoun; 1993, Jean de Bonnot; 2010, points (coll. Wisdom).
• A. de Biberstein Kazimirski, Arab-French dictionary: containing all the roots of the Arabic language, their derivatives, both in vulgar idiom and in literal idiom, as well as the dialects of Algiers and Morocco , t. I and II, Paris, Maisonneuve et Cie, 1860 , 1408 – 1656 p. : (1944 reissue, Beirut, editions of Lebanon, and 2005, Albouraq edition): Arabic -French dictionary – volume I
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• French-person dialogues: preceded by a Precise Persian grammar and followed by a French-person vocabulary , par albert Biberstein-kazimirski.
• Enis El-Djelis or History of Beautiful Persian. Tale of a thousand and one nights , translated from Arabic and accompanied by notes by Albert de Biberstein Kazimirski.

• Knight of the Legion of Honour ( first ^is August 1857 )
• Officer of the Legion of Honor ( July 17, 1869 )