Antoine Galland
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French orientalist, numismatist and translator
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Antoine Galland's Degrees
- Bachelors Arabic Language and Literature Université Paris Cité
- Masters Arabic Language and Literature Université Paris Cité
Why Is Antoine Galland Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Antoine Galland was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of One Thousand and One Nights, which he called Les mille et une nuits. His version of the tales appeared in twelve volumes between 1704 and 1717 and exerted a significant influence on subsequent European literature and attitudes to the Islamic world. Jorge Luis Borges has suggested that Romanticism began when his translation was first read.
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