Edward William Lane's 214th Birthday

Edward William Lane

The great pioneer anthropologist and lexicographer Edward William Lane was born on this day in 1801, as I believe I have noted every year since I started blogging.

Lane's works, cited fully in the link above, give us a superb description of Egypt in the Muhammad  ‘Ali era, while his Arabic-English Lexicon remains unmatched in English for Classical Arabic. I annually note his birthday for those reasons and because I share the date, though I am rather younger than he.