Francis Joseph Steingass (March 16, 1825,Frankfurt am Main – January 1903) was aBritishlinguist andorientalist.

Steingass completed his education, including a PhD, inMunich, Germany. Later, he was a professor of Modern Languages atBirmingham and a professor of Modern Languages and Resident Lecturer on Arabic Languages, Literature & Law at theOriental Institute,Woking.

He mastered 14 languages, including Arabic, Persian and Sanskrit. He published a number of Persian-English, Arabic-English and English-Arabic dictionaries.^[1]

• Steingass (1882).English-Arabic dictionary: for the use of both travellers and students. London:W. H. Allen & Co. Retrieved6 July 2011. Another digitised copy ishere.
• Steingass, F.J. (1884).The student's Arabic-English dictionary. London: Crosby Lockwood and Son. Retrieved6 July 2011.
• Steingass (1892).A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary, Including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in literature (5th [1963] ed.). London:Routledge & Kegan Paul. Retrieved26 October 2017. Apparently there is a 2015 edition fromMunshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi,ISBN 81-7304-669-7.

• The Assemblies of Al-Ḥarîri. Translated from the Arabic with Notes Historical and Grammatical (1898), vol. 2 (the last 24 Assemblies), trans. from Arabic by and F. Steingass, preface & index byF. F. Arbuthnot,Oriental Translation Fund, New Series, 3 (London:Royal Asiatic Society), 2nd of 2 vols, the 1st with the first 24 Assemblies being published in 1867 with a trans. byThomas Chenery.

• University of Chicago - Digital Dictionaries of South Asia: Steingass, Francis Joseph.A Comprehensive Persian-English dictionary, including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in Persian literature. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1892.

• 1825 births
• 1903 deaths
• British Arabists
• British orientalists
• Linguists from the United Kingdom
• Linguists from Germany
• 19th-century British lexicographers

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