Armand Pierre Caussin de Perceval

See also: Caussin

Armand Pierre Caussin de Perceval , born with Paris the January 13rd 1795 and died in Paris the January 15th 1871, is a Orientaliste and Lexicographe French.

In 1814, it goes to Constantinople as a pupil Drogman, then voyage in Turkey and to the Lebanon, where it spends one year among the Maronites before becoming interpreter with Alep. Of return to Paris, it is named Arab professor of modern to the École of the Eastern languages, in 1820, then Arabic professor to the Collège de France, in 1833. He is elected with the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1849.

Its principal work, entitled Test on the history of the Arabs before Islamism , mainly rests on the Kitáb Al-Agháni (Book of the songs) of Abu Al-Faraj, which is a true mine of information on the life and the habits of the Arab at times pre ic Islam and will be published only forty years later in Egypt.

His/her father Jean Jacques Antoine Caussin de Perceval (1759 - 1835) had been Arabic professor at the Collège de France before him.

Principal works

Precise history of the war of the Turks against the Russians, since the year 1769 until the year 1774, drawn from Annals of the historian Turkish Vassif-Effendi , 1822.
Dictionary French-Arabic, by Ellious Bocthor, re-examined and increased by A. Caussin de Perceval , 1828-1829.
vernacular Arabic Grammar for the dialects of the East and Cruelty , 1833.
Test on the history of the Arabs before Islamism, during the time of Mahomet and until the reduction of all the tribes under the Moslem law , 1847-1848.
anecdotic Notes on the principal the first three centuries Arab musicians of Islamism , 1874.

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