Étienne Marc Quatremère
Étienne Marc Quatremère de Quincy (born July 12, 1782 in Paris , † September 18, 1857 ibid) was a French orientalist .
Quatremère came from a Jansenite family; his father was murdered during the French Revolution .
At Silvestre de Sacy , Quatremère learned Arabic at the École speciale des langues orientales .
After two years as a librarian in the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque Impériale, Étienne Quatremère became professor of Greek literature at the Faculty of Rouen in 1809 , a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1815 and Professor of Semitic languages at the Collège de France in Paris in 1819 . In 1812 he became a corresponding member of the Prussian and in 1853 a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . He died on September 18, 1857.
In the following year, 1858, the extremely extensive and valuable collection of books and manuscripts Quatremères was purchased by the Bavarian State Library .
Works (selection)
- as an author
- Research on the Langue et la Literature de l'Égypte . Paris 1808.
- Mémoires geographiques et historiques sur l'Égypte . Paris 1811. (2 vol.)
- Observations on quelques points de la geographie de l'Égypte . Paris 1812.
- Mélanges d'histoire et de philologie orientale . Paris 1861 (posthumously edited by Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire ).
- as translator
- Ahmad Al-Maqrīzī : History of the Mamlukes in Egypt . (1837–40, 4 volumes).
- Raschīd ad-Dīn : History of the Mongols ("Collection orientale"). Paris 1837.
Web links
- Literature by and about Étienne Marc Quatremère in the catalog of the German National Library
- Étienne Marc Quatremère's works and estate at the Bavarian State Library .
Individual evidence
- ↑ About the collection. [Orient Collection of the BSB]. In: Bavarian State Library. Retrieved October 24, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quatremère, Étienne Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1857 |
| Place of death | Paris |