Louis-Mathieu Langlès

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1763 - 1824

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Louis-Mathieu Langlès (23 August 1763 – 28 January 1824) was a French academic, philologist, linguist, translator, author, librarian and orientalist. Langlès was born in 1763 in Pérennes. He went to Paris where he studied Arabic and Persion at Collège de France, studying Arabic and Persian. In 1785, he was attached to the Tribunal of the Marshals of France, which was at that time charged with suppressing duels. In 1795 Langlès was appointed the founder-director the Ecole des langues orientales vivantes in Paris. He was a specialist on India at the Bibliothèque Nationale. Langlès exchanged letters with William Jones in Calcutta. He was also responsible for the history and bibliography of the early publications of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in the third volume of the Magasin Encyclopédique. The 1811 edition of Jean Chardin's Voyages de monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l'Orient (The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient), was edited by Langlès and is still regarded as the standard version of Chardin's work. He died in Paris at the age of 81.

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