Mohamed Bencheneb

Mohamed Bencheneb (26 October 1869 – 5 February 1929) was an Algerian professor, writer and historian.

[1] Born in 1869[2] to parents of Turkish origin,[3] Bencheneb became a teacher from 1889, mastering several languages, in addition to Arabic and French, he had learned Latin, English, Italian, Spanish, German, Persian and Turkish.

[4] Bencheneb taught at the Graduate School of Arts of Algiers before being sent in 1898 to a professorship at the Madrasas of Constantine where he remained for three years.

He returned to Algiers in 1901 as a professor, taught since 1904 in Madrasa Thaalibia, and in 1908 was responsible for higher education conferences.

[4] After his death in 1929, he was buried in the Thaalibia Cemetery of the Casbah of Algiers.