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See also:FOURMONT, See also:ETIENNE (1683–1745) , See also:French orientalist, was See also:born at Herbelai, near See also:Saint See also:Denis, on the 23rd of See also:June 1683. He studied at the See also:College See also:Mazarin, See also:Paris, and afterwards in the College Montaigu, where his See also:attention was attracted to See also:Oriental See also:languages. Shortly after leaving the college he published a Traduction du commentaire du Rabbin See also:Abraham Aben Esra sur l'ecclesiaste. In 1711 See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. appointed Fourmont to assist a See also:young See also:Chinese, Hoan-ji, in compiling a Chinese See also:grammar. Hoan-ji died in 1716, and it was not until 1737 that Fourmont published Meditations Sinicae and in 1742 Grammatica Sinica. He also wrote Reflexions critiques sur See also:les histoires See also:des anciens peuples (1735), and several See also:dissertations printed in the Memoires of the See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions. He became See also:professor of Arabic in the College de See also:France in 1715. In 1713 he was elected a member of the Academy of Inscriptions, in 1738 a member of the Royal Society of See also:London, and in 1742 a member of that of See also:Berlin. He died at Paris on the 19th of See also:December 1745.
His See also:brother, See also:Michel Fourmont (1690–1746), was also a member of the Academy of Inscriptions, and professor of the See also:Syriac See also:language in the Royal College, and was sent by the See also:government to copy inscriptions in See also:Greece.
An See also:account of Etienne Fourmont's See also:life and a See also:catalogue of his See also:works will be found in the second edition (1747) of his Reflexions critiques.
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