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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Antoine Galland canonical | 5 |
| Antoine Galland (as part of Arabian Nights corpus) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T711410 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Antoine Galland Context triple: [The Arabian Nights, firstMajorEuropeanTranslationBy, Antoine Galland]
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Antoine Coysevox
Antoine Coysevox was a prominent French Baroque sculptor renowned for his expressive portrait busts and monumental decorative works for Louis XIV’s palaces.
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Louis de Jaucourt
Louis de Jaucourt was an 18th-century French scholar and physician best known for writing thousands of articles for Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, making him one of its most prolific contributors.
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Charles de La Fosse
Charles de La Fosse was a prominent French Baroque painter known for his decorative ceiling and religious works, and for helping transition French art toward the Rococo style.
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Jean-Baptiste Marie Gautier
Jean-Baptiste Marie Gautier was a French painter active in the 18th century who was associated with the prestigious Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.
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E.
Edward William Lane
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Antoine Galland Target entity description: 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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A.
Antoine Coysevox
Antoine Coysevox was a prominent French Baroque sculptor renowned for his expressive portrait busts and monumental decorative works for Louis XIV’s palaces.
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B.
Louis de Jaucourt
Louis de Jaucourt was an 18th-century French scholar and physician best known for writing thousands of articles for Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, making him one of its most prolific contributors.
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C.
Charles de La Fosse
Charles de La Fosse was a prominent French Baroque painter known for his decorative ceiling and religious works, and for helping transition French art toward the Rococo style.
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D.
Jean-Baptiste Marie Gautier
Jean-Baptiste Marie Gautier was a French painter active in the 18th century who was associated with the prestigious Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.
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E.
Edward William Lane
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeologist
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human ⓘ orientalist ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1646-04-04 ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
17th century
ⓘ
18th century ⓘ |
| collected | Middle Eastern manuscripts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1715-02-17 ⓘ |
| employer |
Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France
ⓘ
surface form:
Bibliothèque du Roi
Collège de France ⓘ |
| era |
Early Modern period
ⓘ
surface form:
Early modern period
|
| familyName |
Adolf Galland
ⓘ
surface form:
Galland
|
| fieldOfWork |
Oriental studies
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archaeology ⓘ translation ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Antoine ⓘ |
| influenced | European reception of Middle Eastern literature ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early 18th-century French translation of The Arabian Nights
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introducing One Thousand and One Nights to European audiences ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Institut de France
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surface form:
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
|
| name | Antoine Galland self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
French translation of One Thousand and One Nights
ⓘ
The Arabian Nights ⓘ
surface form:
Les Mille et Une Nuits
|
| occupation |
archaeologist
ⓘ
orientalist ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kingdom of France
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Picardy ⓘ Rollot ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Kingdom of France
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
|
| studied |
Arabic
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Persian ⓘ Turkish ⓘ |
| translatedFromLanguage |
Arabic
ⓘ
Persian ⓘ Turkish ⓘ |
| traveledTo |
Constantinople (probable)
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surface form:
Constantinople
Levant region ⓘ
surface form:
Levant
Syria ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| wroteInLanguage | French ⓘ |
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Subject: Antoine Galland Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (6)
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