Abdolonyme Ubicini

Jean -Henri Abdolonyme Ubicini ( born October 20, 1818 in Issoudun, Indre, † October 28, 1884 ) was a French historian and journalist.

Life

He came from a Lombard middle class family. After studying in his native city and in Versailles worked as a teacher of rhetoric in Joigny.

Since 1844, he has traveled extensively through Italy, Greece and the Ottoman Empire.

During a stay in Bucharest, he took part in the Romanian Revolution of 1848 and became minister of the provisional government. As the Russian Empire and the Ottomans were reflected the Revolution he left the principality of Wallachia after Constantine Opel, before he later returned to France.

He settled in Paris, where he wrote several studies on the Ottoman Empire and the Danubian principalities. Among the most important part of Lettres sur la Turquie ( " Letters on Turkey "). He founded the journal Revue de l' Orient and has written for several other newspapers such as Le Siècle, La Presse and Le Courrier de Paris. He took in his writings commonly includes one pro-Romanian point of view. With Abel Jean Baptiste de Pavet Courteille he gave État présent de l' empire ottoman (1876 ) out.

Ubicini was an honorary member of the Romanian Academy and in 1867 he obtained Romanian citizenship.