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| Date transcribed | 2011-05-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Langlés | | | First Name(s) | Louis Mathieu | | | Year of Birth | 1764 | | | Year of Death | 1824 | | | Entry | Born near Montdidier, 1764 : son of a military officer : educated at Paris : studied Oriental languages, Persian, Arabic and Chinese : translated the Institutes of Tamerlane from Persian into French : and Contes, Fables et Sentences from Arabian and Persian authors, 1877 : first made known, to France and the Continent, the existence of the Asiatic Society of Bengal : wrote a Mahratta History : addressed the National Assembly, 1790. on "" The importance of Oriental languages for the extension of commerce and the progress of the arts and sciences"" : published Fables et Contes Indiens, with an essay on the Hindus : and part of the Hitopadesa : was keeper of the Oriental MSS. of the Royal Library: suggested the formation of a special school for Oriental living languages, which he was charged to organize, and became its Principal and Persian Professor : on the formation of the French Institute was chosen a member of the literary committee: contributed articles on Oriental subjects, and wrote the Ancient and Modern Monuments of Hindostan, 1824 : at a meeting of the Institute read a memoir demonstrating the possibility of opening a passage to
India through Egypt, and thereby striking a death-blow at British supremacy in the East : Napoleon, who was present, thereupon planned the conquest of Egypt : Langlés' library was the richest private Oriental collection then in existence, containing the only exact and complete autograph copy of the Ain-i-Abkari : was a leading member of several Societies and Academies : died Jan. 28, 1824. |
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