Marie Felicité Brosset
Marie Felicité Brosset (born February 5, 1802 in Paris , † September 3, 1880 in Châtellerault , Vienne ) was a French orientalist.
Brosset was particularly known as an authority on Georgian, initially studying theology at the seminaries of Orléans and Paris, then oriental languages and first becoming through the publication and translation of a Chronique géorgienne (Paris 1830), the Mémoires inédits sur la langue et l'histoire géorgiennes (Paris 1833) and a grammar of the Georgian language (Paris 1834).
After Brosset went to Russia , he was made an extraordinary member of the Academy of Sciences in 1847 and a full member of the Academy of Sciences for Georgian and Armenian literature in 1847, and in 1841 he was appointed inspector of the particular schools in Saint Petersburg , and in 1842 he became a librarian at the imperial library and in 1851 curator of the collection of oriental coins in the Hermitage . From 1866 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .
Works (selection)
- Eléments de la langue géorgienne . Paris 1837 (reprinted 1975).
- Monograph des monnaies Arméniennes . St. Petersburg 1839.
- Catalog de la bibliothèque d'Edchmiadzin . St. Petersburg 1840.
The text edition and French translation of the following works:
- Vaxusti Bagrationi: Description geographique de la Géorgie, par le tsarévitch Wakhoucht. Publiée d'après l'original autographs by M. Brosset . St. Petersburg 1842 (In Georgian script, Georgian and French).
- Histoire ancienne de la Géorgie (Georgian and French, that. 1849, 2 vols.).
- Additions et éclaircissements à l'histoire de la Géorgie . St. Petersburg 1851.
- Histoire moderne de la Géorgie . (Georg. and French, das. 1856–1857, 3 vols.).
- Correspondance des rois de Géorgie avec les souverains russes . (that. 1861).
- Les ruines d'Ani, capitale de l'Arménie sous les rois Bagratides, aux Xe et XIe siècle: histoire et description . (das. 1860–1861, 2 parts with maps).
Works translated from Armenian:
- Stephanos Orbélian: Histoire de la Siounie. Première livraison, Histoire de la Siounie. Seconde livraison, Introduction . Académie impériale des sciences. St. Petersburg 1864–1866.
- Mkhithar d'Aïrivank: Histoire chronologique. Trad. de l'armén. by M. Brosset . (that. 1869).
- Deux historiens arméniens: Oukhtanès et Kiracos . (das. 1870, 2 vols.).
- Collection d'historiens arméniens: 10 ouvrages sur l'histoire de l'Arménie et des pays adjacents du X. au XIX. siècle; trad. de l'arménien et du Russe, avec des notes critiques, linguistiques et éclaircissantes (St. Petersburg 1874–1876, vol. 1 and 2).
In addition, B. wrote numerous articles for the Pariser Journal asiatique (1827–1836) and the publications of the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg and was a collaborator at:
- Davidom Chubinovym (1814-1891): Dictionnaire géorgien-russe-français . St. Petersburg 1840.
He wrote the following report about a trip to the Caucasus, Georgia and Armenia (1847–1848):
- Reports on un voyage archéologique dans la Géorgie et dans l'Arménie: exécuté en 1847 - 1848 ; avec un Atlas de 45 planches lithographiées. St. Petersburg 1849–1851 (with maps).
Individual evidence
- ^ Members of the previous academies. Marie Félicité Brosset. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 2, 2015 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Marie Felicité Brosset in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brosset, Marie Felicité |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 1880 |
| Place of death | Châtellerault , Perigord, France |