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Louis-Mathieu Langlès
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Louis-Mathieu Langlès

لوي ماتيو لانغلس

Notable figure 1763–1824 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 1, p. 175; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 945 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Langlès, Louis (1763-1824)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Edited and translated the Voyages of Sindbad (1814)

Biography

He began as a soldier, then learned Arabic from Caussin de Perceval with de Sacy's help, and was appointed professor at the School of Oriental Languages in Paris, where many studied under him. He published part of Ibn Iyas's Nashq al-azhar fi ʿaja'ib al-aqtar with a translation (1807), translated part of the Thousand and One Nights (1813), and published the Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor in Arabic with a literal translation (1814).