| Birth Date: | 1868 |
| Birth Place: | Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire |
| Death Place: | Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
| Years Active: | 1890s–1930s |
| Known For: | founder of L'Aurore |
Lucien Sciuto (1868–1947) was a Jewish educator, writer and journalist. Born in Thessaloniki, Ottoman Empire, he worked for various publications in Istanbul and founded a magazine-turned-newspaper L'Aurore which was published in Istanbul and then, in Cairo between 1909 and 1941 with five-year hiatus.
Sciuto was born in Thessaloniki in 1868 into a religious family.[1] He attended the Alliance Israélite Universelle school which he left at age 14.[1] [2]
Sciuto worked for the newspapers in his hometown, including Le Journal de Salonique and Le Moniteur Oriental.[2] His literary career began in 1884 when he published a poetry book entitled Poèmes misanthropiques.[1] He published another poetry book in French and in 1894 he published another book in Paris in 1894, Paternité.[1] Sciuto worked as the editor of a satirical magazine entitled Kalem in Istanbul.[3] In 1909 he founded a French language newspaper, L'Aurore, which was published in Istanbul until 1919.[4]
Sciuto left Istanbul due to his problems with local Jewish leaders and settled in Palestine.[5] There he contributed various Hebrew newspapers.[6] In 1924 he began to live in Cairo and relaunched L'Aurore as a weekly magazine.[7] In Cairo he joined the Société d’Études Historiques Juives d’Égypte and published poems in the literary magazine, including L’Égypte Nouvelle.[2]
Due to financial problems Sciuto left L'Aurore which had been started as a magazine in Cairo to his friend, Jacques Maleh, in 1931.[8] Scito died in Alexandria in 1947.[1] [5]