1866-1947
He was a linguist and a historian. He was born in Baghdad. He studied with the Carmelite Fathers, and then the Catholic Agreement School. He continued his studies at the Jesuit School in Beirut in 1886, He joined the Carmelite Order in Belgium (in Shevermon Monastery) in 1887, and then he moved to Montpellier in France in 1889 until his ordination as a priest in 1984 He returned to Iraq and took charge of the Carmelite Fathers School for several years. He knew 12 languages in addition to mastering Arabic. He was chosen as a member of several Arab and foreign scientific academies and received several medals. He wrote more than a thousand articles and researches in different Iraqi and Arab magazines. He wrote about forty books on religion. literature and history, including: Alfawz Bilmurad fi Tarikh Baghdad” (Gaining the Aim in the history of Baghdad) in 1911, Aghlat Alnahawiyeen Alaqdamin’ (Errors of the Senior Grammarians) in Arr. Mukhtasar Tarikh Alirag (Brief History of Iraq) in 1919 He worked on a lexicon, that he called Almusa id'(the assistant), for about half a century but could not complete it. Hle also published several newspapers and magazines, most notably Lughat Alarab (the language of the Arabs) from 1911 to 1931
