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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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
surface form: Catholicism
studied Arabic
Persian
Turkish
translatedFromLanguage Arabic
Persian
Turkish
traveledTo Constantinople (probable)
surface form: Constantinople

Levant region
surface form: Levant

Syria
workLocation Paris
wroteInLanguage French

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Ali Baba laterRecordedBy Antoine Galland
this entity surface form: Antoine Galland (as part of Arabian Nights corpus)
Antoine Galland name Antoine Galland self-link