Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein

Albert Félix Ignace Kazimirski or Albin de Biberstein (20 November 1808 – 22 June 1887) was a Polish orientalist, author of an Arabic-French dictionary and a number of Arab-French translations, including the Quran.

Like many other Poles, after the defeat of the Polish army in September 1831, he chose to go into exile in France, where he traveled with the historian Joachim Lelewel.

In 1834, alongside Adam Mickiewicz and Bohdan Zaleski, he founded the Slavic Society (Towarszystwo słowiańskie) of Paris.

Then he became a dragoman, providing interpretation of languages for the representatives of France to the Levantine échelles, and was attached to the mission of Persia.

He eventually created his own translation drawing on the earlier works of the Italian cleric Louis Maracci (1698) and the English George Sale (1734) and later published for the first time in 1840.