Frédéric Soret

Frédéric Jacob Soret ( born May 12, 1795 in Saint Petersburg, † December 18, 1865 in Plain Palais in Geneva ) was a Swiss private scholar and numismatist.

Life

Sorets family came from Geneva, but his father was an artist Russian tsar. After the return of the family, he studied Physics in Geneva. In 1822 he was hired by Grand Duke Karl August of Saxe- Weimar -Eisenach as a royal tutor. Also under his successor Karl Friedrich was Soret, the took care of the education of the future Grand Duke Carl Alexander to 1836. In Weimar, he also translated some of the scientific works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, with whom he was friends.

After re- return to Geneva, he began to deal with Numismatics. His interest in oriental coins, possibly triggered by a Fund medieval North African coins in the Swiss plug Born, led to the construction of the most important private collection of his time in this area.

After Sorets death of the Grand Duke bought through mediation Johann Gustav Stickel, was in connection with the Soret on the weimarer overtime at its collection of approximately 5,000 coins for the Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena.