Mohand Tazerout, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Algerian philosopher and translator
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Place of Birth: Aghrib, Tizi Ouzou Province, Algeria
About Mohand Tazerout
- Mohand Tazerout (1893 in Aghribs – 1973 in Tangier) was an Algerian philosopher, writer, translator and Algerian civilizationist.
- He translated several works of German philosophers including The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler in 1931, and wrote many books, including several commentaries on Soviet communism (La Métaphysique intellectuelle - 1955), and a political history of northern Africa (Histoire politique de l'Afrique du Nord - 1961). Born in the Kabylia region, he studied at Bouzaréa in Algiers, and was appointed to a school in El-Had Thénia.
- In 1912, he rebelled against the director and left Algeria for Cairo, joining al-Azhar University.
- In 1913, he moved to Iran where he learned Persian.
- He subsequently moved to Russia and then China around 1914, picking up the local languages.
- Tazerout then visited Europe, and was recruited in Belgium for service in 1917 during World War I.
- He later studied at Poitiers and Strasbourg.
- He spent much of his last 20 years back in Algeria, before passing away in Tangier in 1973.
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