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QUATREMERE, ETIENNE MARC (1782-1857)

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QUATREMERE, See also:ETIENNE MARC (1782-1857) , See also:French Orientalist, the son of a Parisian See also:merchant, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 12th of See also:July 1782. Employed in 1807 in the See also:manuscript See also:department of the imperial library, he passed to the See also:chair of See also:Greek in See also:Rouen in 1809, entered the See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions in 1815, taught See also:Hebrew and Aramaic in the See also:College de See also:France from 1819, and finally in 1827 became See also:professor of See also:Persian in the School of Living See also:Oriental See also:Languages. Quatremere's first See also:work was Recherches . . sur la langue et la litterature de l'Egypte (18o8), showing that the See also:language of See also:ancient See also:Egypt must be sought in Coptic. His See also:translation of Makrizi's Arabic See also:history of the See also:Mameluke sultans (2 vols., 1837–41) shows his erudition at the best. He published among other See also:works Memoires sur See also:les Nabateens (1835); a translation of Rashid al-Din's Hist. See also:des See also:Mongols de la Perse (1836); Mem. geog. et hist. sur l'Egypte 081o); the See also:text of See also:Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena; and a vast number of useful See also:memoirs in the See also:Journal asiatique. His numerous reviews in the Journal des savants should also be mentioned. Quatremere made See also:great lexicographic collections in Oriental languages, fragments of which appear in the notes to his various works. His MS. material for See also:Syriac has been utilized in See also:Payne See also:Smith's See also:Thesaurus; of the slips he collected for a projected Arabic, Persian and See also:Turkish See also:lexicon some See also:account is given in the See also:preface to See also:Dozy, Supp. aux dictt. arabes. They are now in the See also:Munich library. A See also:biographical See also:notice by M. See also:Barthelemy Sainte-Hilaire is prefixed to Quatremere's Melanges d'histoire et de philologie orientale (1861).

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