Samuel Rousseau (orientalist)

Samuel Rousseau
Born1763
Died4 December 1820(1820-12-04) (aged 57)
Ray Street, Clerkenwell, London
NationalityBritish
Known forArabic – English dictionary; translations of Persian literature

Samuel Rousseau (1763–1820) was a British Oriental scholar and printer. He compiled very early Arabic-English and Persian-English dictionaries, and translated and printed the first English-language editions of several important Arabic and Persian works.

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