Yacoub Artin (15 April 1842 – 21 January 1919) was an Egyptian educator and scholar from ethnic Armenian origin.
He was of Armenian descent, working for the Ministry of Public Education in 1888. It was noted in a period newspaper that he was one of many "non-Muslim" Egyptians working for the government at the time, a source of irritation among a segment of the population. He was an Armenian Apostolic Christian, and once more in 1895 it was noted that a "non-Muslim" was in charge of education for a population that was predominately Muslim.
Works La proprieté foncière en Égypte, Cairo, 1883. Translated by Edward Abbott van Dyck as The right of landed property in Egypt, London, 1885. L'instruction publique en Egypte, Paris, 1890. (tr.) Contes populaires inédits de la vallée du Nil, Paris, 1895. Contribution à l'étude du blason en Orient, London, 1902. England in the Sudan, London: Macmillan, 1911. Translated from French by George Robb.
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