Antoine Galland, French orientalist and archaeologist (born 1646)

Antoine Galland

French orientalist, numismatist and translator (1646–1715)

Antoine Galland 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…