Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville (December 14, 1625 - December 8, 1695), French orientalist, was born at Paris. December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events March 27 - Prince Charles Stuart becomes King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland. ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 27 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed II to Mustafa II (1695-1703) July 17 - The Bank of Scotland is founded by an Act of Parliament of the old Scottish Parliament. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

He was educated at the University of Paris, and devoted himself to the study of oriental languages, going to Italy to perfect himself in them by converse with the orientals who frequented its sea-ports. There he also made the acquaintance of Holstenius, the Dutch humanist (1596-1661), and Leo Allatius, the Greek scholar (1586-1669). The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: Université de Paris) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganized as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ... Lucas Holstenius, the Latinized name of Luc Holste (1596 - February 2, 1661), German humanist, geographer and theological writer, was born at Hamburg. ... Leo Allatius (circa 1586 - January 19, 1669) was an energetic Greek Catholic scholar and theologian. ...

On his return to France after a year and a half, he was received into the house of Fouquet, superintendent of finance, who gave him a pension of 1500 livres. Losing this on the disgrace of Fouquet in 1661, he was appointed secretary and interpreter of Eastern languages to the king. Nicolas Fouquet (1615 — March 23, 1680) was viscount of Melun and of Vaux, marquis of Belle-Isle, superintendent of finance in France under Louis XIV. Born in Paris, he belonged to an influential family of the noblesse de robe, and after some preliminary schooling with the Jesuits, at the age... Events January 6 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. ... Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) reigned as King of France and King of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death. ...

A few years later he again visited Italy, when the grand-duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany presented him with a large number of valuable Oriental manuscripts, and tried to attach him to his court. Herbelot, however, was recalled to France by Colbert, and received from the king a pension equal to the one he had lost. In 1692 he succeeded D'Auvergne in the chair of Syriac, in the Collège de France. He died in Paris on the 8th of December 1695. Jean-Baptiste Colbert Jean-Baptiste Colbert (August 29, 1619 – September 6, 1683) served as the French minister of finance for 22 years under King Louis XIV. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing and bringing the economy back from the brink of bankruptcy... Syriac is an Eastern Aramaic language that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. ... The Collège de France is a higher education teaching and research establishment located in Paris, France. ...

His great work is the Bibliothèque orientale, ou dictionnaire universel contenant tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient, which occupied him nearly all his life, and was completed in 1697 by Antoine Galland. It is based on the immense Arabic dictionary of Hadji Khalfa, of which indeed it is largely an abridged translation, but it also contains the substance of a vast number of other Arabic and Turkish compilations and manuscripts. The Bibliothèque was reprinted at Maestricht (fol. 1776), and at the Hague (4 vols 4to, 1777-1799). Antoine Galland (April 4, 1646 — February 17, 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, and the first European translator of the Arabian Nights. ... Arabic (العربية) is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of separate sheets of paper or other material. ...

The latter edition is enriched with the contributions of the Dutch orientalist Schultens, Johann Jakob Reiske (1716-1774), and by a supplement provided by Visdelow and Galland. Herbelot's other works, none of which have been published, comprise an Oriental Anthology, and an Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Latin Dictionary. Albert Schultens (1686 - January 26, 1750), was a Dutch philologist. ... Johann Jakob Reiske (December 25, 1716- August 14, 1774), German scholar and physician, was born at Zorbig in Electoral Saxony. ...

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