François Bernard Charmoy
François Bernard Charmoy (born May 14, 1793 in Soultz-Haut-Rhin , † early 1869 in Aouste-sur-Sye , Département Drôme ) was a French orientalist .
François Bernard Charmoy had been studying oriental studies in Paris since 1810, and on Silvestre de Sacy's recommendation he and Jean-Baptiste Démange were appointed to Saint Petersburg in 1817 to introduce the study of oriental languages. There he took over the professorship of Persian and Turkish.
In addition, he dealt with the historical sources of the Mongols and the medieval history of Russia and published in the memoirs of the Petersburg Academy in 1829, among other things, an episode from the Persian epic "Iskender Nameh" about an alleged expedition of Alexander the Great against the Russians. In December 1829 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
After returning to France in 1835, he settled at Aouste in the Drôme department, where he focused primarily on the language and history of the Kurds and undertook the transmission of the history of this people by Chérefeddin (a Kurdish prince). The first volume of this great, in many respects important work, the ethnographic and geographical introduction, appeared under the title: “Chèref-Nâmeh ou fastes de la nation kourde” (Petersb. 1868). Soon after its publication, in early 1869, Charmoy died.
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. François Bernard Charmoy. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed November 6, 2015 (Russian).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Charmoy, François Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soultz-Haut-Rhin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1869 |
| Place of death | Aouste |