Samuel Rousseau (orientalist)

This article is about the British scholar and printer. For the French composer, see Samuel Rousseau (composer). For the French contemporary artist, see Samuel Rousseau (artist).
Samuel Rousseau
Born1763
Died4 December 1820(1820-12-04) (aged 57)
Ray Street, Clerkenwell, London
Known forArabic – English dictionary; translations of Persian literature
Spouse
Mary Silvester
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(m. 1787)​
Children2 daughters, Maria and Caroline

Samuel Rousseau (1763–1820) was a British Oriental scholar and printer. He compiled very early Arabic-English and Persian-English dictionaries, and translated and printed the first English-language editions of several important Arabic and Persian works.

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