Francis Joseph Steingass (March 16, 1825, Frankfurt am Main – January 1903) was a British linguist and orientalist of

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descent.

Biography

Steingass completed his education, including a 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,

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. He mastered 14 languages, including Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. He published a number of Persian-English, Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionaries.Author's biography sketch
in the reprint of his ''Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary'' ()

Works

Author

* Another digitised copy i
here
* * Apparently there is a 2015 edition from Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi, .

Translator, editor

*
The Assemblies of Al-Ḥarîri. Translated from the Arabic with Notes Historical and Grammatical
' (1898), vol. 2 (the last 24 Assemblies), trans. from Arabic by and F. Steingass, preface & index by F. F. Arbuthnot,

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, New Series, 3 (London: Royal Asiatic Society), 2nd of 2 vols, the 1st with the first 24 Assemblies being published in 1867 with a trans. by Thomas Chenery.

References

External links

University of Chicago - Digital Dictionaries of South Asia
Steingass, Francis Joseph. ''A Comprehensive Persian-English dictionary, including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in Persian literature''. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1892. {{DEFAULTSORT:Steingass, Francis Joseph 1825 births 1903 deaths British Arabists British lexicographers British orientalists Linguists from the United Kingdom Linguists from Germany 19th-century lexicographers