Houdas, Octave Victor, 1840-1916

found: LCCN 10-7412: Berthelot, M. Histoire des sciences, 1893(hdg.: Houdas, Octave Victor, 1840-1916; variant: O. Houdas)

found: LC data base, 11-8-86(hdg.: Houdas, Octave Victor, 1840-1916; variant: O. Houdas)

found: His Précis de grammaire arabe, 1897:t.p. (O. Houdas, Prof. a l'école des langues orientales vivantes)

found: 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)