Jean-Baptiste Dubourg-Miroudot
Jean-Baptiste Dubourg-Miroudot (* 17th November 1717 in Vesoul , † 22 / 23. May 1798 in Paris ) was a French general in Baghdad and Bishop of Babylon .
Life
Dubourg-Miroudot or Du Bourg-Miroudot entered the Cistercian Abbey of Morimond in 1741 , but was later used in other monasteries, including a. 1763 in Cîteaux . In 1771 he took part in the General Chapter as a delegate. In 1775 King Louis XVI appointed him . French consul in Baghdad and Latin bishop of Babylon, to whom he was ordained on June 21, 1776 by Archbishop Raymond de Durfort . However, Miroudout never took office. In 1781 he set sail in Marseilles on the king's orders , but returned to Aleppo due to illness and was finally dismissed as consul general in 1783.
After 1789 he placed himself in the service of the revolutionaries and was one of the seven bishops who took the oath on the civil constitution of the clergy . In 1791 he assisted Talleyrand in the ordination of the first two constitutional bishops and was suspended by the Pope. He died impoverished in Paris on the night of May 22nd to 23rd, 1798.
In the 1750s to Miroudot had with the cultivation of ryegrass or ryegrass concerned and above written a guide that was also translated into German.
Works
- Mémoire sur le ray-grass ou faux-seigle. Nancy 1760 ( digitized version )
literature
- Anne Mézin: Les consuls de France au siècle des lumières (1715–1792). Paris 1998
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dubourg-Miroudot, Jean-Baptiste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Du Bourg-Miroudot, Jean-Baptiste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Consul General and Bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1717 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vesoul |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1798 or May 23, 1798 |
| Place of death | Paris |