Louis Jacques Bresnier

Louis Jacques Bresnier is a Orientaliste born with Montargis in the 1814 and died on June 21st, 1869 in Algiers of an attack of apoplexy, while entering to the Library where it was going to make his course.

He was the first Arab professor in Algiers. In 1836, on the request of the Minister for the war, Mr. de Sacy indicated one of the best pupils of the School of the alive Eastern languages to go to found in Algiers the Arab language teaching.

While its lessons, if methodical, if clear, if easy to retain, trained around him the first interpreters, it devoted most of its leisures to compose a grammar. One owes in Bresnier several works become traditional:

• the practical and theoretical Course of Arab language
• Djaroumia, the Anthology, Arab Chrestomathie and elementary Principles of the Arab language .

Sources

• the Gold book of Algeria , Narcisse Falcon, Challamel and Co Editors Algerian and Colonial Bookstore, 1889.

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