Henri Fleisch

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Reverend Father Henri Fleisch (1 January 1904 – 10 February 1985) was a French archaeologist, missionary and Orientalist, known for his work on classical Arabic language and Lebanese dialect and prehistory in Lebanon.[1] Fleisch spent years recording and recovering lithics from prehistoric Lebanese archaeological sites and in 1954, it was confirmed that he had discovered and named a previously unknown proto-Neolithic culture in Lebanon called the Qaraoun culture that used a flint industry he termed Heavy Neolithic.[2]

Fleisch was born in

Saint Joseph University in Beirut.[3] It was here that many of his archaeological finds were stored and in 2000 they formed The Museum of Lebanese Prehistory where many of his finds are stored and displayed. The museum celebrated their tenth anniversary with a posthumous exhibition of Fleisch's photography and work entitled "Prehistory vs. Urbanization".[4] He died, aged 81, in Lebanon
, where he was buried.

He was the author of two hundred forty publications, including the Eastern dialects and was a specialist in Arabic, Greek, Latin, Syriac and Hebrew. He also wrote a small booklet on the French regional patois vocabulary of Jonvelle in 1951. He was the author of the Treaty of Arabic philology in 1961 and 1977. He distinguished himself by combining research prehistory and geology, discovering the site of Naama and carrying out work at Tell Jisr and Ras Beyrouth. Fleisch's most famous works are Introduction à l'Étude des langues sémitiques (1947),[5] L'Arabe classique (1968)[6] and Traité de philologie arabe, 1-2 (1961–79).[7]

References

  1. ^ Glynendal - Henri Fleisch
  2. ^ Fleisch, Henri, Nouvelles stations préhistoriques au Liban, BSPF, vol. 51, pp. 564-565, 1954.
  3. ^ Henri Fleisch (1904-1985) on the website of Museum of Lebanese Prehistory. - The obituary P. Henry FLEISCH SJ. (1904-1985) in Paléorient. 1985, Vol. 11 No. 1. p. 5.
  4. ^ Sfeir, Mia., Femme Magazine - Préhistoire VS Urbanisation, le témoignage d'Henri Fleisch - Issue 206 - P.70 Published June 1, 2010 Archived August 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Henri Fleisch (1947). Introduction à l'étude des langues sémitiques: éléments de bibliographie. Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  6. ^ Henri Fleisch (1968). L'arabe classique: esquisse d'une structure linguistique. Dar el-Machreq. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  7. ISBN 9782721456038
    . Retrieved 31 March 2011.
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