Salmān, Ḥanna
author: George A. Kiraz
source date: 2011
edition published: 2016-09-22-16:00
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Salmān, Ḥanna

https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Salman-Hanna http://syriaca.org/bibl/476 467 Ḥanna Salmān http://syriaca.org/person/714 [person] [Educator and poet.]

(1914–1981) [Syr. Orth.]

He was born in Maʿsarteh and joined the Taw Mim Simkath orphanage in Adana. He taught Syriac, French, and Arabic at the same institution, after it moved to Beirut . He graduated from the American University of Beirut, and then established in Tal Tamar, near al-Ḥasake, a school for the Assyrians. He became the principal of the Syr. Orth. schools of Qamishli, and a manager of the Electrical Company of Qamishli after its nationalization. He returned to Beirut where he taught at the American University. He died in a car accident in 1981.

He published with Yuḥanon Qashisho a set of Syriac readers (Qamishli, 1951). He composed more than 100 poems, mostly unpublished. He translated a novel/play from French into Syriac (Munūfar Barṣūm gives the titled transcribed in Arabic as janfīfāf, i.e., Geneviève) (ms).

Sources

Abūna, Adab, 573–74.
Munūfar Barṣūm, Aḍwāʾ, 79–81.

George A. Kiraz