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Edward William Lane

1801 - 1876

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Edward William Lane (17 September 1801 – 10 August 1876) was a British orientalist, translator and lexicographer. He is known for his Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians and the Arabic-English Lexicon, as well as his translations of One Thousand and One Nights and Selections from the Kur-án. During his lifetime, Lane also wrote a detailed account of Egypt and the country's ancient sites, but the book, titled Description of Egypt, was published posthumously. It was first published by the American University in Cairo Press in 2000 and has been republished several times since then. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward William Lane is the 3,589th most popular writer (up from 4,715th in 2019), the 2,867th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,403rd in 2019) and the 326th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Edward William Lane ranks 3,589 out of 7,302. Before him are Teofilo Folengo, Ozaki Kōyō, Titus Quinctius Atta, Augusto Monterroso, Arthur Waley, and Giovanni Pontano. After him are Takeo Arishima, Mikha'il Na'ima, Henry Becque, James Russell Lowell, Albert Cossery, and Chögyam Trungpa.

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Among people born in 1801, Edward William Lane ranks 60. Before him are Charles Elliot, Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, Wilhem de Haan, Atanasio Aguirre, Evangelos Damaskos, and Jan Kalivoda. After him are Maria Röhl, José Joaquín Pérez, Édouard Lartet, Peter Wilhelm Lund, Hippolyte Carnot, and Henri de Brouckère. Among people deceased in 1876, Edward William Lane ranks 44. Before him are Aleksander Fredro, Johann Löwenthal, Manuel Blanco Encalada, Eliza McCardle Johnson, Joseph Böhm, and Joseph von Führich. After him are Ferdinand Freiligrath, Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, Hermann Goetz, Salim bin Thuwaini, Friedrich von Berchtold, and Theodor von Heuglin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward William Lane ranks 2,868 out of 8,785. Before him are E. W. Hornung (1866), Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831), Lindsay Kemp (1938), Dennis Viollet (1933), Arthur Waley (1889), and Herbert James Draper (1863). After him are Joely Richardson (1965), Jane Digby (1807), Paul Young (1956), Auguste Couder (1789), John Alcock (1892), and Nevil Shute (1899).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edward William Lane ranks 326. Before him are Robert Holdstock (1948), William Ernest Henley (1849), John Osborne (1929), William Cowper (1731), E. W. Hornung (1866), and Arthur Waley (1889). After him are Nevil Shute (1899), Alma Reville (1899), Charles Lock Eastlake (1793), William Robertson Smith (1846), Penelope Fitzgerald (1916), and Rupert Brooke (1887).

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