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A Scholar in the Making: Antoine Galland’s Early Travel Diaries in the Light of Comparative Folk Narrative Research

Abstract Antoine Galland (1646–1715) is best known for his adapted translation of Thousand and One Nights, published in the final decade of his life (1704–1717), when he was a respected scholar. His interest for stories and storytelling, however, already shows in the diaries preserved from his sojourn in Constantinople in 1672–1673, when Galland was merely in the second half of this twenties. In the present article, I explore these diaries in the light of comparative folk narrative research.