Abel Jean Baptiste Pavet de Courteille

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Abel Jean Baptiste Pavet de Courteille (born June 23, 1821 in Paris , † December 13, 1889 in Paris) was a French orientalist . He was the grandson of Silvestre de Sacy on his mother's side and, at his suggestion, devoted himself to the study of oriental languages, especially Turkish . His main work is his "Turkish-oriental dictionary" ( Dictionnaire turc-oriental , Paris 1870).

In 1854 he became an associate professor and in 1861 a full professor of Turkish at the Collège de France . In 1873 he succeeded Emmanuel de Rougé at the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .

With Barbier de Meynard , he published the first three volumes of the historiographical work Les Prairies d'Or des Mas'udi in a bilingual edition (Arabic with French translation) ( Société asiatique , Collection d'ouvrages orientaux ). He translated several works from Turkish and Uighur .

With Abdolonyme Ubicini he published the work État présent de l'empire ottoman (1876).

Works (selection)

  • Conseils de Nabi Efendi à son fils Aboul Khair (Turkish text with French translation, 1857)
  • Mirâdj-nâmeh (Uighur text with French translation, 1882)
  • Tezkereh-i-evliâ . Le mémorial des saints (French translation of the Uighur text, 1889)

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References and footnotes

  1. ^ The edition was later revised by Charles Pellat .
personal data
SURNAME Pavet de Courteille, Abel Jean Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French orientalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1889
Place of death Paris