Francis Joseph Steingass Explained

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

Biography

Steingass completed his education, including a PhD, in Munich, Germany. Later, he was a professor of Modern Languages at Birmingham and a professor of Modern Languages and Resident Lecturer on Arabic Languages, Literature & Law at the Oriental Institute, Woking.

He mastered 14 languages, including Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. He published a number of Persian-English, Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionaries.^[1]

Works

Author

• Book: Steingass. English-Arabic dictionary: for the use of both travellers and students. 1882. W. H. Allen & Co.. London. 2011-07-06. Another digitised copy is here.
• Book: Steingass, F.J.. The student's Arabic-English dictionary. 1884. Crosby Lockwood and Son. London. 2011-07-06.
• Book: Steingass. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary, Including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in literature. 1892. 5th [1963]. Routledge & Kegan Paul. London. 2017-10-26. 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, Oriental Translation Fund, 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.

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.

Notes and References

1. http://www.coronetbooks.com/books/c/comp7111.htm Author's biography sketch