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Yacoub Artin

1842 – 1919

Armenian-Egyptian educator and scholar

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Lived 1842 – 1919 (aged 76). Yacoub Artin was a Turkish civil servant, translator and folklorist.

Yacoub Artin (15 April 1842 – 21 January 1919) was an Egyptian educator and scholar from ethnic Armenian origin.

He was of Armenian descent, working for the Ministry of Public Education in 1888. It was noted in a period newspaper that he was one of many "non-Muslim" Egyptians working for the government at the time, a source of irritation among a segment of the population. He was an Armenian Apostolic Christian, and once more in 1895 it was noted that a "non-Muslim" was in charge of education for a population that was predominately Muslim.

Works La proprieté foncière en Égypte, Cairo, 1883. Translated by Edward Abbott van Dyck as The right of landed property in Egypt, London, 1885. L'instruction publique en Egypte, Paris, 1890. (tr.) Contes populaires inédits de la vallée du Nil, Paris, 1895. Contribution à l'étude du blason en Orient, London, 1902. England in the Sudan, London: Macmillan, 1911. Translated from French by George Robb.

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Who was Yacoub Artin?

Armenian-Egyptian educator and scholar

When was Yacoub Artin born?

Yacoub Artin was born on 15 April 1842 in Cairo.

When did Yacoub Artin die?

Yacoub Artin died on 21 January 1919 in Cairo.

What was Yacoub Artin's occupation?

Yacoub Artin was a civil servant, translator and folklorist.

What nationality was Yacoub Artin?

Yacoub Artin was Turkish.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Yacoub Artin

· Wikidata: Q1466028

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