Abel Jean Baptiste Pavet de Courteille
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
- ^ The edition was later revised by Charles Pellat .
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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 |