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HERBELOT DE MOLAINVILLE, BARTHELEMY

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HERBELOT DE MOLAINVILLE, See also:

BARTHELEMY D' (1625-1695), See also:French orientalist, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:December 1625 at See also:Paris. He was educated at the university of Paris, and devoted himself to the study of See also:oriental See also:languages, going to See also:Italy to perfect himself in them by converse with the orientals who frequented its See also:sea-ports. There he also made the acquaintance of See also:Holstenius, the Dutch humanist (1596-1661), and See also:Leo Allatius, the See also:Greek See also:scholar (1586-1669). On his return to See also:France after a See also:year and a See also:half, he was received into the See also:house of See also:Fouquet, See also:superintendent of See also:finance, who gave him a See also:pension of 1500 livres. Losing this on the disgrace of Fouquet in 1661, he was appointed secretary and interpreter of Eastern languages to the See also:king. A few years later he again visited Italy, when the See also:grand-See also:duke See also:Ferdinand II. of See also:Tuscany presented him with a large number of valuable Oriental See also:MSS., and tried to attach him to his See also:court. Herbelot, however, was recalled to France by See also:Colbert, and received from the king a pension equal to the one he had lost. In 1692 he succeeded D'See also:Auvergne in the See also:chair of See also:Syriac, in the See also:College de France. He died in Paris on the 8th of December 1695. His See also:great See also:work is the Bibliotheque orientale,ou dictionnaire universel contenant tout ce qui regarde la connoissance See also:des peuples de l'Orient, which occupied him nearly all his See also:life, and was completed in 1697 by A. See also:Galland. It is based on the immense Arabic See also:dictionary of Hadji Khalf a, of which indeed it is largely an abridged See also:translation, but it also contains the substance of a vast number of other Arabic and See also:Turkish compilations and See also:manuscripts.

The Bibliotheque was reprinted at Maestricht (fol. 1776), and at the See also:

Hague (4 vols. 4to, 1777-1799). The latter edition is enriched with the contributions of the Dutch orientalist See also:Schultens, Johann See also:Jakob See also:Reiske (1716-1774), and by a supplement provided by Visdelow and Galland. Herbelot's other See also:works, none of which have been published, comprise an Oriental See also:Anthology, and an Arabic, See also:Persian, Turkish and Latin Dictionary.

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