Francisco Codera y Zaidín

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Francisco Codera y Zaidín (Huesca, Spain, 23 June 1836 [1]– 6 November 1917)[2] was a Spanish historian, philologist and Arabist scholar. Among his students, known in the academic field as the Beni Codera, [3][4] were Arabists Rafael Altamira and José Deleito.[5]

Francisco Codera
Codera Zaidin, c. 1904
Born
Francisco Codera y Zaidín

23 June 1836
Huesca, Spain
Died6 November 1917 (1917-11-07) (aged 81)
Huesca, Spain
Academic work
Notable worksBiblioteca arabigohispana, Estudios de historia arábigo-española, Decadencia y Desaparición de los Almorávides en España, etc.
Seat h of the Real Academia Española
In office
15 May 1910 – 6 November 1917
Preceded byManuel del Palacio [es]
Succeeded byCarlos Cortezo [es]

Life

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Codera Zaidín was a Professor of Greek, Hebrew and Arabic respectively in Granada, Zaragoza and the Central University,. As the principal student of Pascual Gayangos, he was an outstanding Arabist and succeeded him to the chair of Arabic at the Central University. He was appointed a permanent member of the Real Academia de la Historia on 20 April 1879.[6] He was a language academic at the Royal Spanish Academy from 1910.[7]

Works

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Rigorously positivist, his works generally focus on historiographic sources of Arab origin (Estudios de historia arábigo-española, Decadencia y Desaparición de los Almorávides en España, 1899, reissued with an important introductory study by María Jesús Viguera Molins in 2004). His works include Tratado de numismática arabigoespañola ('Treaty of Arabo-Spanish Numismatics'), (1879); Estudios críticos de Historia árabe española ('Critical Studies of Spanish Arab History') (1917, 2 vols.) and above all, his monumental Biblioteca arabigohispana ('Arab-Hispanic Library') (1882–1895, 10 vols.).

He also contributed to scholarship in Aragonese phonetics and promoted Arabic studies in Spain. He retired to his native town of Fonz, in the province of Huesca, to devote himself to his scholarly studies and the writing of treaties on agriculture. His students include Julián Ribera. His archive is conserved at the "Biblioteca de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia" (UNED).

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References

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  1. ^ "Zaidin, Francisco Codera y, 1836-1917 (historian, philologist, scholar) | ArchiveSearch". archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  2. ^ Pasamar Alzuria & Peiró Martín 2002, p. 192.
  3. ^ Ágreda 2008, p. 428; Viguera 2009, p. 77.
  4. ^ Cruz Hernández, Miguel (2007), "75 años de la Escuela de Estudios Árabes", Ideal
  5. ^ Pedro Ruiz Torres, ed. (2000). "José Deleito y Piñuela". Discourses on history: Opening lessons for the course at the University of Valencia (1870-1937). Universitat de València. p. 166. ISBN 9788437043937.
  6. ^ Martín Escudero, Cepas & Canto García 2004, p. 78.
  7. ^ "Francisco Codera - letra h". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2023.

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