Halévy, Joseph, French Orientalist and traveller, born at Adrianople; his most notable work was done in Yemen, which he crossed during 1869-70 in search of Sabæan inscriptions, no European having traversed that land since A.D. 24; the result was a most valuable collection of 800 inscriptions, &c.; his works are numerous, and deal with various branches of Oriental study; (b. 1827).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Halévy, Jacques François Elias * Haliburton, Thomas Chandler