French orientalist, born at Beaucourt, France, on the 15th of September 1846; studied until 1873 at Strasburg, in the Protestant Theological School; assisted, in 1873, in the editing of Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum. He was chosen librarian at the Paris Institute in 1824, and given the chair of Hebrew in 1877. Among his writings are the following: Les Ex-voto du Temple de Tarrit de Carthage; Nouvelles Inscriptions Nabatéennes; and L’Arabie avant Mahomet d’Après les Inscriptions.
