Abdolonyme Ubicini
Jean-Henri-Abdolonyme Ubicini (born October 20, 1818 in Issoudun , Département Indre , † October 28, 1884 ) was a French historian and journalist.
Life
He came from a middle-class Lombard family. After studying in his hometown and in Versailles, worked as a rhetoric teacher in Joigny .
From 1844 he made extensive trips through Italy , Greece and the Ottoman Empire .
During a stay in Bucharest he took part in the Romanian Revolution of 1848 and became Minister of the Provisional Government. When the Russian Empire and the Ottomans put down the revolution, he left the principality of Wallachia for Constantinople , before later returning to France.
He settled in Paris , where he wrote several studies on the Ottoman Empire and the Danube Principalities . One of the most important is Lettres sur la Turquie ("Letters about Turkey"). He founded the magazine Revue de l'Orient and wrote for several other papers such as Le Siècle , La Presse and Le Courrier de Paris . He usually took a pro-Romanian standpoint in his writings. With Abel Jean Baptiste Pavet de Courteille , he edited État présent de l'empire ottoman (1876).
Ubicini was an honorary member of the Romanian Academy and received Romanian citizenship in 1867 .
literature
- Corneliu Diaconovich: Enciclopedia română ( Romanian ), Volume 3. W. Krafft, Sibiu 1904, p. 1150.
- Paul Armand: Necrology . In: Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de Marseille ( French ), Volume 8. Secrétariat de la Société de Géographie, Marseille 1884, pp. 396-397.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ubicini, Abdolonyme |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Issoudun , Indre |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1884 |