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Richard van Leeuwen

ريشارد فان ليوين

Notable figure b. 1955 · Source: WorldCat record: The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia (2004) · Second source: Library of Congress Name Authority File n92097345: Leeuwen, Richard van (b. 8 Sept. 1955), Arabist

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Translator of the Thousand and One Nights into Dutch

Biography

He taught at the University of Amsterdam. He made the first complete Dutch translation of the Thousand and One Nights from the Arabic, using the Bulaq (1835) and Calcutta (1842) editions and Muhsin Mahdi's edition, published in volumes from 1993 to 1999. With Ulrich Marzolph he edited The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia (2004).