Jean Fontaine

Jean Fontaine
Born2 December 1936
Saint-André-lez-Lille, France
Died1 May 2021(2021-05-01) (aged 84)
Tunis, Tunisia
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Writer
Theologian

Jean Fontaine (2 December 1936 – 1 May 2021) was a French writer, theologian, and missionary.

Biography

In 1953, Fontaine earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics. On 15 September 1955, he left for Algeria as part of the White Fathers. From 1956 to 1957, he studied theology at Saint-Joseph de Thibar in Tunisia before becoming a teacher in Algeria. He then took three years of theology courses in Carthage and Arabic studied in Manouba from 1962 to 1964. From 1964 to 1965, he completed his Arabic studies at the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in Rome. In 1968, he obtained a licentiate in Arabic from Tunis University. From 1968 to 1977, he was a librarian at the Institut des belles lettres arabes and directed the journal Ibla from 1977 to 1999. He earned a doctorate from the University of Provence in 1977.

Jean Fontaine died from COVID-19 on 1 May 2021, at the age of 84 in Tunis, Tunisia.

Publications

References

  1. ^ "Décès de Jean Fontaine, un grand spécialiste de la littérature tunisienne". Kapitalis (in French). 2 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Jean Fontaine". Limag (in French). Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Jean Fontaine, le migrant inversé, nous quitte". Leaders (in French). 3 May 2021.
  4. ^ ""Du côté des salafistes en Tunisie" de Jean Fontaine". Leaders (in French). 20 September 2016.