Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat

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Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat
Title page of the book Iu-kiao-li, ou les deux cousines

Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (born September 5, 1788 in Paris , † June 4, 1832 in Paris) was a French sinologist and librarian .

Life

After initially working as a doctor, he learned classical Chinese and in 1811 published an "Essay on the Chinese Language and Literature" ( Essai sur la langue et la littérature chinoises ). In 1814 he was appointed professor at the Collège de France , where he held the newly created chair for Chinese and Tatar- Manchurian languages and literature. In 1815 he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres . In 1824 he became curator of the French National Library and in 1832 took over the position of Président du Conservatoire . In 1822 he was a co-founder of the Asian Society and served as its secretary until his death. He also gave courses at the School for Oriental Languages , which was attached to the National Library. In December 1826 he became an honorary foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences . In the spring of 1832 he fell victim to the European cholera epidemic .

He became known through the publication of a Chinese novel Iu-kiao-li, ou les deux cousines, roman chinois (玉嬌 梨), which was read by Thomas Carlyle , Ralph Waldo Emerson , Goethe and Stendhal . His correspondence with Wilhelm von Humboldt about the meaning of word order in Chinese is also important . Abel-Rémusat also studied the Japanese language and history. In 1820 he published a posthumous work by the Dutchman Isaac Titsingh on the shogunate .

literature

  • Hartmut Walravens : On the history of East Asian studies in Europe. Abel Rémusat (1788–1832) and Julius Klaproth's environment (1783–1835) (= Oriental studies bibliographies and documentation 5). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04144-7 .

Web links

Wikisource: Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Abel-Rémusat, Jean-Pierre. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 25, 2019 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Abel-Rémusat, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sinologist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1832
Place of death Paris