thumb|180px|left|Engraving of Paul Henri Mallet (1730–1807) by [[:fr:Jean-Ernest Aubert|Jean-Ernest Aubert, based on a work by Jeanne Henriette Rath]]
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Paul Henri Mallet (20 August 1730 – 8 February 1807) was a Genevan writer and historian. He is best known for his Introduction to the History of Denmark, first translated into English by Thomas Percy as Northern Antiquities, which included the first translation into French of the medieval Edda.
Life
He was born and educated in Geneva, where he earned a law degree, the license de droit, in 1751. He became tutor in the family of the count of Calenberg in Lower Saxony. In 1752 he was appointed professor of belles lettres to the academy at Copenhagen and held the position through 1760. A translation into English, with notes and preface, by Bishop Thomas Percy, was issued in 1770 under the title of Northern Antiquities (republished with additions in 1847). and thence to England, where he was presented at court and commissioned to write the history of the House of Brunswick.