Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
Auteur van The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
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Richard Francis Burton was an explorer, translator, writer, soldier, spy, fencer, and diplomat. He is most famous for his translations of One Thousand and One Sights and the Kama Sutra and for having been the first European to visit the Great Lakes of Africa. He once traveled to Mecca in disguise toon meer and spoke nearly thirty languages. He died in 1890. toon minder
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Complete Arabian Nights) Volume 10 (Volume 10) (2008) 14 exemplaren
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- Gangbare naam
- Burton, Richard Francis
- Officiële naam
- Burton, Sir Richard Francis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- El-Yezdi, Haji Abdu (pseudonym)
Sir Richard Burton - Geboortedatum
- 1821-03-19
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1890-10-20
- Graflocatie
- St Mary Magdalen Church, Mortlake, London, England, UK
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- England, UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Torquay, Devon, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Trieste, Austria-Hungary
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- heart attack
- Woonplaatsen
- Tours, France
Trieste, Austria-Hungary
Elstree, Hertfordshire, England, UK - Opleiding
- University of Oxford (Trinity College)
- Beroepen
- explorer
translator
geographer
writer
soldier
orientalist (toon alle 7)
diplomat - Relaties
- Burton, Isabel (wife)
Stisted, Georgiana M. (niece) - Organisaties
- East India Company
Anthropological Society of London - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (1908)
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (1886)
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society - Korte biografie
- Sir Richard Francis Burton 19 March 1821 – 20 October 1890) was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages.
Burton's best-known achievements include: a well-documented journey to Mecca in disguise, at a time when Europeans were forbidden access on pain of death; an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights (commonly called The Arabian Nights in English after early translations of Antoine Galland's French version); the publication of the Kama Sutra in English; a translation of The Perfumed Garden, the Arab Kama Sutra; and a journey with John Hanning Speke as the first Europeans to visit the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile.
His works and letters extensively criticised colonial policies of the British Empire, even to the detriment of his career. Although he aborted his university studies, he became a prolific and erudite author and wrote numerous books and scholarly articles about subjects including human behaviour, travel, falconry, fencing, sexual practices and ethnography. A characteristic feature of his books is the copious footnotes and appendices containing remarkable observations and information. William Henry Wilkins wrote: "So far as I can gather from all I have learned, the chief value of Burton’s version of The Scented Garden lay not so much in his translation of the text, though that of course was admirably done, as in the copious notes and explanations which he had gathered together for the purpose of annotating the book. He had made this subject a study of years. For the notes of the book alone he had been collecting material for thirty years, though his actual translation of it only took him eighteen months."
Burton was a captain in the army of the East India Company, serving in India, and later briefly in the Crimean War. Following this, he was engaged by the Royal Geographical Society to explore the east coast of Africa, where he led an expedition guided by locals and was the first European known to have seen Lake Tanganyika. In later life, he served as British consul in Fernando Pó (now Bioko, Equatorial Guinea), Santos in Brazil, Damascus (Ottoman Syria) and finally in Trieste. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was awarded a knighthood in 1886.
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