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JAUBERT, PIERRE AMEDEE

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JAUBERT, See also:PIERRE AMEDEE $MILIEN PROBE (1779-1847), See also:French Orientalist, was See also:born at See also:Aix in See also:Provence on the 3rd of See also:June 1779. He was one of the most distinguished pupils of See also:Silvestre de Sacy, whose funeral Discours he pronounced in 1838. Jaubert acted as interpreter to See also:Napoleon in See also:Egypt in 1798-1799, and on his return to See also:Paris held various posts under See also:government. In 1802 he accompanied See also:Sebastiani on his Eastern See also:mission; and in 1804 he was at See also:Constantinople. Next See also:year he was despatched to See also:Persia to arrange an See also:alliance with the shah; but on the way he was seized and imprisoned in a dry cistern for four months by the See also:pasha of See also:Bayazid. The pasha's See also:death freed Jaubert, who successfully accomplished his mission, and rejoined Napoleon at See also:Warsaw in 1807. On the See also:eve of Napoleon's downfall he was appointed See also:charge d'affaires at Constantinople. The restoration ended his See also:diplomatic career, but in 1818 he undertook a See also:journey with government aid to See also:Tibet, whence he succeeded in introducing into See also:France 400 See also:Kashmir goats. The See also:rest of his See also:life Jaubert spent in study, in See also:writing and in teaching. He became See also:professor of See also:Persian in the See also:college de France, and director of the ecole See also:des langues orientales, and in 1830 was elected member of the Academie des See also:Inscriptions. In 1841 he was made a peer of France and councillor of See also:state. He died in Paris on the 28th of See also:January, 1847.

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Journal asiatique, he published Voyage en Armenie et en Perse (1821; the edition of 186o has a See also:notice of Jaubert, by M. Sedillot) and Elements de la grammaire turque (1823-1834). See notices in the Journal asiatique, See also:Jan. 1847, and the Journal des debats, Jan. 30, 1847.

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