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Janus Lassen Rasmussen

يانوس لاسن راسموسن

Notable figure 1785–1826 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 839; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 579 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Rasmussen, Jens Lassen (1785-1826)

From Denmark; worked in France

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Copenhagen professor; translated from the Arabian Nights

Biography

He studied theology in Copenhagen, then went to Paris and learned Arabic under Silvestre de Sacy, returning as lecturer at the University of Copenhagen (1813) and later professor of Oriental languages there. He published Arabic texts with Latin translations on the Arabs before Islam, from al-Nuwayri, Ibn Qutayba and Hamza al-Isfahani (1817), selections from the Copenhagen manuscripts (1821), and translated parts of the Arabian Nights.