Émile Laoust

Émile Laoust was born on 20 July 1876 in Fresnes-sur-Escaut, in the Nord. A schoolteacher in the north of France and then in Algeria, at Marengo and Ghardaïa, he defended a thesis in Algiers in 1912 on the Berber dialects of the Chenoua. Called to Rabat the following year, he taught at the École supérieure de langue arabe et de dialectes berbères, where he was the first holder of a teaching post in Berber in Morocco, and continued his work as a dialectologist and ethnographer after his honorary retirement in 1935. He died in Rabat in 1952.

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• TaleContes berbères du MarocÉmile Laoust · 1949not translated into EnglishLiterature