Antoine Galland

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Antoine Galland was a French Orientalist and archaeologist best known for introducing the Middle Eastern tales of The Arabian Nights to European audiences through his influential early 18th-century translation.

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instanceOf archaeologist
human
orientalist
translator
birthDate 1646-04-04
centuryOfActivity 17th century
18th century
collected Middle Eastern manuscripts
countryOfCitizenship France
deathDate 1715-02-17
employer Bibliothèque du Roi
Collège de France
era Early modern period
linked to: Early Modern period
familyName Galland
linked to: Adolf Galland
fieldOfWork Oriental studies
archaeology
translation
gender male
givenName Antoine
influenced European reception of Middle Eastern literature
knownFor early 18th-century French translation of The Arabian Nights
introducing One Thousand and One Nights to European audiences
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
linked to: Institut de France
name Antoine Galland
nationality French
notableWork French translation of One Thousand and One Nights
Les Mille et Une Nuits
linked to: The Arabian Nights
occupation archaeologist
orientalist
translator
placeOfBirth Kingdom of France
Picardy
Rollot
placeOfDeath Kingdom of France
Paris
religion Catholicism
linked to: Roman Catholicism
studied Arabic
Persian
Turkish
translatedFromLanguage Arabic
Persian
Turkish
traveledTo Constantinople
Levant
linked to: Levant region

Syria
workLocation Paris
wroteInLanguage French

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Antoine Galland name Antoine Galland
Ali Baba laterRecordedBy Antoine Galland (as part of Arabian Nights corpus)
linked to: Antoine Galland
Aladdin (folk tale) translator Antoine Galland
Rollot hasBirthplaceOf Antoine Galland