Edward William Lane

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Edward William Lane was a 19th-century British Orientalist and translator best known for his influential Arabic–English lexicon and his English rendition of "One Thousand and One Nights."

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Edward William Lane canonical 7

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instanceOf Arabist
human
lexicographer
orientalist
translator
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1801-09-17
dateOfDeath 1876-08-10
described social life in 19th-century Egypt
educatedAt Bath Grammar School
Hereford Cathedral School
familyName Lane
fieldOfWork Arabic studies
Islamic studies
lexicography
translation
fullName Edward William Lane self-link
genre ethnography
travel literature
givenName Edward
influenced later translations of One Thousand and One Nights
subsequent Arabic–English lexicography
languageOfWorkOrName Arabic
English
notableWork Arabic–English Lexicon
surface form: An Arabic-English Lexicon

Arabic–English Lexicon
Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
Quran
surface form: Selections from the Koran

The Arabian Nights
surface form: The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments
occupation Egyptologist
lexicographer
orientalist
translator
writer
placeOfBirth England
Hereford
Herefordshire
placeOfDeath England
West Sussex
Worthing
relative Stanley Lane-Poole
religion Christianity
residence Cairo
Egypt
sexOrGender male
sibling Richard James Lane

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Lane hasNotableBearer Edward William Lane
Edward William Lane fullName Edward William Lane self-link
Arabic–English Lexicon author Edward William Lane
Arabic–English Lexicon compiledBy Edward William Lane
Stanley Lane-Poole relative Edward William Lane
Bath Grammar School notableAlumnus Edward William Lane