Auguste Adib Pacha

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Auguste Adib Pacha
أوغست أديب باشا
1st Prime Minister of Lebanon
In office
31 May 1926 – 5 May 1927
PresidentCharles Debbas
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byBechara Khoury
In office
25 March 1930 – 9 March 1932
PresidentCharles Debbas
Preceded byÉmile Eddé
Succeeded byCharles Debbas
Personal details
Born(1859-08-02)2 August 1859
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died9 July 1936(1936-07-09) (aged 76)
Paris, France
NationalityLebanese
Political partyIndependent
SpouseRose Khayat
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Auguste Adib Pacha (

Arabic: أوغست أديب باشا; 2 August 1859 – 9 July 1936) was the first Prime Minister of Lebanon, which at the time was a part of the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
. He served in that capacity twice between 1926 and 1932.

Life

Auguste Charles Adib was born in

Saint Joseph University in Beirut.[2]
In 1885 he moved to Egypt where he worked in the local administration.

He was one of the founding fathers of the

Pan-Arab
ideas of other proponents of independence among the Arabs of the Middle East.

He returned to Lebanon in 1920 after the First World War, having spent two and a half decades in Egypt. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire, which released the Arabic-populated areas in the Middle East from Ottoman dominion, is what prompted his return. In 1926, French colonialists divided the former mandated territory of Syria establishing the State of Lebanon.

Béchara El-Khoury as both sought to succeed him. Adib was not up to this pressure and resigned on 5 May 1927.[3] A few years later, he became Prime Minister again on 25 March 1930. He held the office this time until 9 March 1932. He was related to some other notable individuals, the most prominent of whom was his nephew Camille Chamoun, who would eventually become president.[4]

He died on 9 July 1936, in Paris, at the 8th arrondissement.[5]

Death

On 9 July 1936, around noon, Auguste Adib was in a hotel room on the 5th floor of 29 rue de l'Arcade in Paris, that he had been renting for the past few years. As a result of a false move, he knocked over a lighted lamp on the carpet. His clothes caught fire and was seriously burned all over his body. He was transported, in an alarming state, to the Beaujon hospital, where he later died.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Joseph and Adonis Naama Library" http://www.adonisnehme.info/nehmefamily/?id=3&lang=2#
  2. ISBN 1-86064-982-3
  3. ISBN 1-86064-553-4
  4. ISBN 1-86064-467-8
  5. ^ Archives de Paris, acte de décès n°785, vue 18/31
  6. ^ Retronews, Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, July 10, 1936
Political offices
Preceded by
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Prime Minister of Lebanon

1926-1927 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Prime Minister of Lebanon

1930-1932 		Succeeded by
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