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Edward William Lane (1801–1876)
Lane, Edward William. An English Orientalist; born at Hereford, Sept. 17, 1801; died at Worthing, Aug. 10, 1876. He published ‘Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians’ (1836), and made one of the most famous translations of the ‘Arabian Nights’ (1838–40). He also published ‘Selections from the Ku-rân’ and an important ‘Arabic-English Lexicon’ (1863–74).