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GUIGNES, JOSEPH DE (1721—1800)

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GUIGNES, See also:JOSEPH DE (1721—1800) , See also:French orientalist, was See also:born at See also:Pontoise on the 19th of See also:October 1721. He succeeded See also:Fourmont at the Royal Library as secretary interpreter of the Eastern See also:languages. A Memoire historique sur l'origine See also:des See also:Huns et des Turcs, published by de Guignes in 1748, obtained his See also:admission to the Royal Society of See also:London in 1952, and he became an See also:associate of the French See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions in 1754. Two years later he began to publish his learned and laborious Histoire generale des Huns, des Mongoles, des Turcs el des autres Tartares occidentaux (1756—1758); and in 1757 he was appointed to the See also:chair of See also:Syriac at the See also:College de See also:France. He maintained that the See also:Chinese nation had originated in See also:Egyptian colonization, an See also:opinion to which, in spite of every See also:argument, he obstinately clung. He died in See also:Paris in 1800. The Histoire had been translated into See also:German by Dahnert (1768-5771). De Guignes See also:left a son, See also:Christian See also:Louis Joseph (1959—1845), who, after learning Chinese from his See also:father, went as See also:consul to See also:Canton, where he spent seventeen years. On his return to France he was charged by the See also:government with the See also:work of preparing a Chinese-French-Latin See also:dictionary (1813). He was also the author of a work of travels (Voyages d See also:Pekin, Manille, et l'ile de France, 1808). See See also:Querard, La France litteraire, where a See also:list of the See also:memoirs contributed by de Guignes to the See also:Journal des savants is given.

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