Abraham Constantin Mouradgea d'Ohsson

Abraham Constantin Mouradgea d'Ohsson (born September 26, 1779 in Istanbul , † December 25, 1851 in Berlin ) was a Franco- Armenian Mongolist in the Swedish diplomatic service.

Life

D'Ohsson - a son of Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson (1740-1807), who wrote an early history of the Ottoman Empire - worked from 1811 to 1813 as a Chargé d'affaires in Paris. After the French defeat in the Russian campaign in 1812, he was recalled by Crown Prince Karl Johann .

D'Ohsson's “History of the Mongols from Genghis Khan to Tamerlane ” is one of the first comprehensive historical works on the Mongols and their time. It was first published in Paris in 1824 , and most recently in four volumes in La Haye and Amsterdam in four volumes. It is still useful today because of D'Ohsson's masterful analysis of Arabic, Turkish, and especially Persian sources. The main work Histoire des Mongols from the first half of the 19th century to the most recent times has appeared in Russian, Japanese and Chinese translations.

Works

• Histoire des Mongols: depuis Tchinguiz-Khan jusqu'à Timour-Lang. Paris: Didot, 1824
• Histoire des Mongols depuis Tchinguiz-Khan jusq'a Timour Bey ou Tamerlan. Amsterdam: Muller 1852 (4 volumes)
• Des peuples du Caucase et des pays au nord de la Mer Noire et de la Mer Caspienne, dans le dixième siècle ou voyage d'Abou-al-Cassim. Paris: Didot 1828

literature

• Nils F. Holm, Gunnar Jarring, Bengt Hildebrand, Artikel d'Ohsson, Abraham Constantin Mouradgea, in Svenskt Biografisk Lexikon , XI, 340-45.
• List of the library left by Baron d'Ohsson: Berlin Book Auction, May 10, 1852 ; [Auction cat.] Constantin d'Ohsson. Berlin: Trowitzsch 1852
• Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall : Mongolian History. (= Yearbooks of Literature. Volume seven and seventieth.) Vienna, Carl Gerold Verlag 1837 (This volume of the yearbook contains the second part of a very detailed review by d'Ohsson - Histoire de Mongoles depuis Tchinguiz - Khan jusqu'a Timour Bey ou Tamerlan . La Haye et Amsterdam 1834.) ( online text )

Name variants

Abraham Constantin Mouradgea d'Ohsson, Abraham Constantine Mouradgea d'Ohsson, Constantin Mouradgea d'Ohsson, Muradgea d 'Ohsson, Constantin D'Ohsson, Constantin d'Ohsson, C. D'Ohsson, К. Д'Оссон, Абрахам Константин Д'Оссон

Web links

• UGAB Magazine number 5 - 2nd trimestre 2000
• The Armenian Community In Sweden ( Memento from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Findley: Mouradgea d'Ohsson and His Tableau général de l'empire othoman (English) (PDF; 146 kB)
• Literature by and about father and son D 'Ohsson in the catalog of the SUB Göttingen
• Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson
• Оссон, д'Оссон (d'Ohsson) Абрахам Константин (Russian)

predecessor	Office	successor
Brandel genetics	Swedish envoy in Berlin 1834–1850	Carl von Hochschild