Pierre Amédée Jaubert
Pierre Amédée Jaubert (born June 3, 1779 in Aix-en-Provence , † January 30, 1847 in Paris ) was a French orientalist .
At the École speciales des langues orientales Jaubert was a student of Silvestre de Sacy , one of his classmates was Étienne Marc Quatremère . At the age of 18 he accompanied Napoléon Bonaparte on his Egyptian campaign as an interpreter and soon afterwards also became his secretary interpreter. In this position he translated his proclamations and correspondence with the tribal leaders into the national language.
From 1802 Jaubert worked for several years as an interpreter at the French embassy in Constantinople and Persia and then received the post of business agent in Constantinople. After being imprisoned for six months in the Ishak Pascha Palace on the eastern border of what is now Turkey, he brought the first news about this building to Europe. At the beginning of the restoration , he resigned and retired into private life.
In 1818 he made a new trip to the Orient to buy Tibetan goats on behalf of the government, of which he brought 400 to France. Subsequently he was appointed professor of Persian at the Collège de France and in 1841 a councilor and peer . Since 1831 he was also a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and was a. a. entrusted with work on the Dictionnaire français-berbère .
Works (selection)
- As an author
- Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806, accompagné d'une carte des pays compris entre Constantinople et Téhéran, dressée par M. le chef d'escadron Lapie, suivi d'une notice sur le Ghilan et le Mazenderan , by M. le colonel Trézel. 1821, second edition: Paris 1860
- Elémens de la grammaire turke, à l'usage des élèves de l'École royale et spéciale des langues orientales vivantes. 1823, second edition: Paris 1833
- As translator
- Edrisi : geography . Paris 1836–40 (2 vols.)
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre Amédée Jaubert in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jaubert, Pierre Amédée |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aix-en-Provence |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1847 |
| Place of death | Paris |