Pascual de Gayangos y Arce

There, he began the study of Arabic in the École spéciale des Langues orientales of Paris under Silvestre de Sacy.

[2] In 1837, Gayangos returned to Britain, wrote extensively in British periodicals, like The Athenaeum, and in publications of the SDUK, like The Penny Cyclopaedia for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and The Biographical Dictionary.

In these years he completed his magnum opus as an arabist: the translation, for the Royal Asiatic Society, of the first part of Al Makkari's biography of Ibn al-Khatib.

While in England, he entered in the Holland House circle, where he made the acquaintance of George Ticknor, to whom he was very helpful.

His best-known original work is his lengthy introduction on Spanish romances of chivalry in volume 40 (Libros de caballerías, vol.