Louis-Mathieu Langlès

Louis-Mathieu Langlès (23 August 1763 – 28 January 1824) was a French academic, philologist, linguist, translator, author, librarian and orientalist.

[2][3] Langlès was born in 1763 in Pérennes, a section of the commune of Welles-Pérennes in the department of the Oise.

Instead, he went to Paris where he enrolled at the Collège de France, studying Arabic and Persian.

[7] In 1785, he was attached to the Tribunal of the Marshals of France, which was at that time charged with suppressing duels.

[1] Langlès corresponded with William Jones in Calcutta; and he was responsible for including the history and bibliography of the early publications of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in the third volume of the Magasin Encyclopédique.