Antoine Galland
(1646-1715)
French orientalist, numismatist and translator
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Antoine Galland (4 April 1646 – 17 February 1715) 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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4 April 1646 Rollot, Picardy, France
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17 February 1715 (aged 68) Caen, Normandy, Kingdom of France
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