Albert-Henri de Sallengre

Born in The Hague in 1694, he was a Dutch writer of French origin, from a Protestant refugee family. Sources describe him as trained in letters and law at Leiden, later serving as an advocate at the Court of Holland, a counselor to the Prince of Orange, and a finance commissioner for the States General. He died in The Hague on July 27, 1723.

He is remembered as a man of letters with broad interests in history, philology, and literary culture. During a stay in Paris after the Peace of Utrecht, he is said to have spent much of his time visiting libraries and meeting scholars, which fits the learned, curious tone of his later work.

Sallengre wrote in French and also in Latin. Among the works linked to him are Mémoires de littérature and Histoire de Pierre de Montmaur, and he was also involved in early eighteenth-century journal culture in The Hague, including the Journal littéraire. His career was brief, but it placed him squarely in the busy intellectual world of the Dutch Republic.