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5 - Gayangos in the English Context

from III - GAYANGOS IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2012

Richard Hitchcock
Affiliation:
University of Exeter
Cristina Alvarez Millan
Affiliation:
Department of Medieval History, UNED, Madrid
Claudia Heide
Affiliation:
School of Arts, Culture and Environment, University of Edinburgh
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When Pascual de Gayangos married Frances (Fanny) Revell in London on 28 October 1828, a pattern was set for his life. In an elucidating biography of the life of Gayangos up to the age of twenty-four, Joaquín Vallvé states, following Roca, that the two met in Paris, where they were staying in the same hotel. One assumes that this was not Gayangos's regular abode in Paris, as his mother was at the time paying a visit. As he had been in France since 1822, he presumably spoke fluent French, and this, no doubt, was the language of communication with his future wife. The same year of 1828, he is said to have concluded his studies en lenguas orientales. This is clearly implausible. Although he had studied Arabic with Silvestre de Sacy, a distinguished and justly venerated Arabist, since 1825, during the three years between then and 1828 he could have acquired the rudiments of the language and literature, but nothing remotely sufficient for him to pursue a career as an Arabist at that stage. It is certain that he was studying Arabic at a propitious moment, when ‘l'étude de la langue arabe a pris en France, en Allemagne, et dans tout le nord de l'Europe, un développement plus grand qu'on n'auroit osé l'espérer’. Furthermore, ‘[une] multitude d'ouvrages ont été publiés, par le secours desquels la littérature ancienne et moderne des Arabes a été rendue accessible à beaucoup de jeunes gens …’.

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Pascual de Gayangos
A Nineteenth-Century Spanish Arabist
, pp. 89 - 105
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Print publication year: 2008

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