Born in 1869 to parents of
Turkish origin, 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. 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. He published several articles: one of his first articles was in the
Revue Algerienne de Droit ("Journal of Algerian Law") in 1895, then in the
Revue Africaine ("African Journal") where most of his articles were hosted. After his death in 1929, he was buried in the
Thaalibia Cemetery of the
Casbah of Algiers. ==References==