Marie-Félicité Brosset

Marie Felicite Brosset ( born February 5, 1802 in Paris, † September 3, 1880 in Châtelleraut, Perigord ) was a French orientalist.

Brosset was especially known as an authority for the Georgian, initially studied theology at the seminaries of Orléans and Paris, then Oriental languages ​​and was first through the publication and translation of a Chronique géorgienne (Paris 1830), the Mémoires sur la langue et l' inédits histoire géorgiennes (Paris 1833) and a grammar of the Georgian language (Paris 1834) known.

After Brosset had gone to Russia, he was here appointed associate in 1847 a full member of the Academy of Sciences for the subject of the Georgian and Armenian Literature in 1838 and also received in 1841 the office of inspector of Partikularschulen in Saint Petersburg, in 1842 became librarian at the imperial Library in 1851 to curator of the collection of Oriental coins in the Hermitage.

Works (selection)

• Eléments de la langue géorgienne. Paris 1837 ( reprint 1975).
• Monograph of monnaies Arméniennes. St. Petersburg 1839.
• Catalogue de la bibliothèque d' Edchmiadzin. St. Petersburg 1840.

The text edition and French translation of the following works:

• Vaxusti Bagrationi: Description Geographical location de la Géorgie, par le tsarevitch Wakhoucht. Publiée d'après l' original autograph par M. Brosset. St. Petersburg 1842, ( In georg. Font, georg. , And French).
• Histoire ancienne de la Géorgie (Georgian and French, das. 1849, 2 vols ).
• Additions et à l' histoire de la éclaircissements Géorgie. St. Petersburg in 1851.
• Histoire de la modern Géorgie. ( georg. and French, das. 1856-1857, 3 vols ).
• Correspondance des rois de Géorgie avec les souverains russes. (ibid. 1861).
• Les ruines d' Ani, capitale de l' Arménie sous les rois Bagratides, aux Xe et XIe siècle: histoire et description. (ibid. 1860-1861, 2 Tle with cards).

From the Armenian transmitted works:

• Stephanos Orbelian: Histoire de la Siounie. Première livraison, Histoire de la Siounie. Seconde livraison, Introduction. Impériale Académie des sciences. St. Petersburg from 1864 to 1866.
• Mkhithar Aïrivank d' Histoire chronologique. Trad. de l' arms. par M. Brosset. (ibid. 1869).
• Deux historiens Arméniens: Oukhtanès et Kiracos. (ibid. 1870, 2 vols ).
• Collection d' historiens Arméniens: 10 ouvrages sur l' histoire de l' Arménie et des pays du adjacents X. au XIX. siècle; Traditional de l' arménien et du Russian, avec des notes critiques, linguistiques et éclaircissantes (St. Petersburg from 1874 to 1876, Vol 1 and 2).

Also, as written numerous essays for the Paris Journal asiatique (1827-1836) and the publications of the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg and was a staff member at:

• Davidom Chubinovym (1814-1891): Dictionnaire géorgien - russe - français. St. Petersburg 1840 et seq.)

About a trip to the Caucasus, Georgia and Armenia (1847-1848), he wrote the following report:

• Rapport sur ​​un voyage dans la Archaeological Géorgie et dans l' Arménie: execute s 1847 - 1848; avec un Atlas de 45 planches lithographiées. St. Petersburg 1849-1851, with maps ).