Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes
Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (born August 20, 1759 in Paris , † March 9, 1845 ) was a French diplomat and sinologist .
Life
Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes was the son of the sinologist Joseph de Guignes , from whom he learned the Chinese language. 1794–95 he traveled to China with the Dutch businessman Isaac Titsingh and officiated as an interpreter in the Forbidden City in Beijing at the court of Emperor Qianlong . This was the last European embassy to see the Old Summer Palace before it was destroyed by European troops in a punitive expedition in the Second Opium War in 1860 . In 1808 de Guignes published the report on his trip to China under the title Voyage a Pékin, Manille et l'Ile de France . In the same year he was commissioned by Napoleon to publish a Chinese-French-Latin dictionary. It appeared in 1813 as Dictionnaire Chinois, Français et Latin , but it soon turned out that it was a copy of an older work by the Italian missionary Basile de Glemona . Despite criticism from Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat , de Guignes was appointed a member of the Académie des sciences (Department of Geography and Shipping) and the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .
Works
- Voyages à Péking, Manille et l'île de France faits dans l'intervalle des années 1784 à 1801. Imprimerie impériale, Paris 1808.
- Dictionnaire Chinois, Français et Latin. Imprimerie Impériale, Paris 1813.
Web links
- Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest: An authentic account of the embassy of the Dutch East-India company, to the court of the emperor of China English translation (1798) of the travelogue from 1794, Volume I.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of members since 1666: Letter G. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 21, 2019 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guignes, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French diplomat and sinologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1759 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1845 |