Jean Fontaine Explained

Jean Fontaine
Birth Date:2 December 1936
Birth Place:Saint-André-lez-Lille, France
Death Place:Tunis, Tunisia
Nationality:French
Occupation:Writer
Theologian

Jean Fontaine (2 December 1936 – 1 May 2021) was a French writer, theologian, and missionary.[1]

Biography

In 1953, Fontaine earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics. On 15 September 1955, he left for Algeria as part of the White Fathers. From 1956 to 1957, he studied theology at Saint-Joseph de Thibar in Tunisia before becoming a teacher in Algeria. He then took three years of theology courses in Carthage and Arabic studied in Manouba from 1962 to 1964. From 1964 to 1965, he completed his Arabic studies at the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in Rome. In 1968, he obtained a licentiate in Arabic from Tunis University. From 1968 to 1977, he was a librarian at the and directed the journal Ibla from 1977 to 1999.[2] He earned a doctorate from the University of Provence in 1977.

Jean Fontaine died from COVID-19 on 1 May 2021, at the age of 84 in Tunis, Tunisia.[3]

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Décès de Jean Fontaine, un grand spécialiste de la littérature tunisienne. 2 May 2021. Kapitalis. French.
  2. Web site: Jean Fontaine. Limag. French. dead. https://archive.today/20120909075857/http://www.limag.refer.org/Pagespersonnes/Fontaine.htm. 9 September 2012. 3 May 2021.
  3. Web site: Jean Fontaine, le migrant inversé, nous quitte. 3 May 2021. Leaders. French.
  4. Web site: "Du côté des salafistes en Tunisie" de Jean Fontaine. 20 September 2016. Leaders. French.