Georges-Henri Bousquet
Georges-Henri Bousquet was born on June 21, 1900. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Georges-Henri Bousquet
Georges-Henri Bousquet (21 June 1900 in Meudon – 23 January 1978 in Latresne) was a 20th-century French jurist, economist and Islamologist. He was a professor of law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Algiers where he was a specialist in the sociology of North Africa (Berbers, Islam). He is also known for his translation work of the great Muslim authors, Al-Ghazali, a theologian who died in 1111 and Tunisian historian Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406). He was known as a polyglot, spoke several European languages (Dutch, his second mother tongue, English, German, Italian, but also Spanish, Danish, Norwegian) and Eastern ones (Arabic, Malay).