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Jean-Jacques-Antoine Caussin de Perceval

جان جاك أنطوان كوسان دو برسفال

Notable figure 1759–1835 · Source: Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 912 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Caussin de Perceval, Jean-Jacques-Antoine (1759-1835)

Field: Literature

Affiliation

Arabic professor, Collège de France; continued the Nights

Biography

He studied Arabic at the Collège de France and was made its professor of Arabic in 1784; he was keeper of the Arabic manuscripts of the Royal Library (1787–1790) and was elected to the Académie des inscriptions (1816). He translated al-Nuwayri's history of Sicily (1802) and the Hakimi tables of Ibn Yunus (1804), and continued Galland's Thousand and One Nights with new volumes (1806).