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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward William Lane has received more than 130,949 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward William Lane is the 4,463rd most popular writer (down from 3,831st in 2019), the 3,323rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,833rd in 2019) and the 380th most popular British Writer.

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  • 19

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  • 2.80

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edward William Lane ranks 4,463 out of 5,755Before him are James Dashner, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Eliška Krásnohorská, Kedarnath Singh, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, and Carmen de Burgos. After him are James Agee, Stijn Streuvels, Nikolai Tikhonov, George Chapman, Iakob Gogebashvili, and Hans Werner Richter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Edward William Lane ranks 67Before him are Carl August von Steinheil, José Joaquín Pérez, Zecharias Frankel, František Škroup, Friedrich Frey-Herosé, and William Hallowes Miller. After him are Ludwig Bechstein, Maria Röhl, Albert Auguste Perdonnet, Georgios Koletis, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, and Jules Pierre Rambur. Among people deceased in 1876, Edward William Lane ranks 51Before him are Félicien David, Ludwig Traube, Johann Löwenthal, Eliza McCardle Johnson, Friedrich von Berchtold, and Joseph Böhm. After him are Adolph Tidemand, Gennady Nevelskoy, Theodor von Heuglin, and Johannes Rebmann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward William Lane ranks 3,323 out of 7,765Before him are Jim Bellamy (1881), Sheena Easton (1959), Max Newman (1897), Dora Boothby (1881), Vic Buckingham (1915), and David Morrissey (1964). After him are Lance Macklin (1919), Andy Bown (1946), Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel (1557), Lady Byron (1792), Geoffrey Burbidge (1925), and Allan Ramsay (1713).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edward William Lane ranks 380Before him are Jackie Collins (1937), Joan Aiken (1924), A. E. Housman (1859), Richard Hoggart (1918), Sax Rohmer (1883), and Christopher Priest (1943). After him are George Chapman (1559), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), John Farey Sr. (1766), Grace Aguilar (1816), Donald Rayfield (1942), and W. W. Jacobs (1863).