| LC control no. | n 86868409 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Houdas, Octave Victor, 1840-1916 |
| Variant(s) | Houdas, O. (Octave), 1840-1916 |
| Associated country | France Algeria |
| Associated place | Tunisia |
| Birth date | 1840-10-01 |
| Death date | 1916-12-05 |
| Place of death | Paris (France) |
| Affiliation | Collège impérial d'Alger École des lettres d'Alger École des langues orientales vivantes (France) France. Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques Société d'ethnologie française |
| Profession or occupation | Arabic teachers Translators Ethnologists |
| Found in | LCCN 10-7412: Berthelot, M. Histoire des sciences, 1893 (hdg.: Houdas, Octave Victor, 1840-1916; variant: O. Houdas) LC data base, 11-8-86 (hdg.: Houdas, Octave Victor, 1840-1916; variant: O. Houdas) His Précis de grammaire arabe, 1897: t.p. (O. Houdas, Prof. a l'école des langues orientales vivantes) Wikipedia, French version, March 2, 2020 (Octave Houdas; Octave Victor Houdas; born 1 October 1840 in Outarville (Loiret), accompanied his parents to Algeria; named professor of French at collège impérial d'Alger, chair of Arabic in 1863; named to the chaire supérieure d'Alger in 1877; French ethnographer, translator and professor, specialist in Arabic; first to apply philological orientalism to texts of African Islam; in 1880 he directed the Section orientale, École des Lettres d'Alger; left Algeria in 1881 for Tunisia, where he accompanied Marie Joseph René Basset in archaeological research; returned to Algeria in 1882; named in 1884 to Paris, chaire d'arabe vulgaire, École des Langues orientales; left the position of chair of Arabic language and literature the same year, left it to René Basset; his works then turned toward translation; in 1907 his daughter Alice married his favorite student, the Africanist Maurice Delafosse, who Houdas assisted in translations; he also taught at the École des Sciences Politiques; member of Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, and Société d'Ethnologie Française; died 5 December 1916 in Paris) |
| Associated language | fre ara |
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