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.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Antoine Galland (as part of Arabian Nights corpus) | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| 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 de l’Institut de France
ⓘ
surface form:
Bibliothèque du Roi
Collège de France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Early Modern period
ⓘ
surface form:
Early modern period
|
| familyName |
Adolf Galland
ⓘ
surface form:
Galland
|
| fieldOfWork |
Oriental studies
ⓘ
archaeology ⓘ translation ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Antoine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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 |
Institut de France
ⓘ
surface form:
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
|
| name | Antoine Galland self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableWork |
French translation of One Thousand and One Nights
ⓘ
Les Mille et Une Nuits NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
archaeologist
ⓘ
orientalist ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kingdom of France
ⓘ
Picardy ⓘ Rollot ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Kingdom of France
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
|
| studied |
Arabic
ⓘ
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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this entity surface form:
Antoine Galland (as part of Arabian Nights corpus)