Étienne Marc Quatremère

Marc Étienne Quatremère de Quincy ( born July 12, 1782 Paris, † September 18, 1857 ) was a French orientalist.

Quatremère came from a family jansenitischen; his father was killed during the French Revolution.

When Silvestre de Sacy learned Quatremère at the École des langues orientales Arabic speciale.

Quatremère in 1809 professor of Greek literature at the Faculty of Rouen, in 1815 a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and in 1819 professor of Semitic languages ​​at the Collège de France in Paris. In 1853 he became a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He died on 18 September 1857.

Works (selection)

• Recherches sur la langue et la littérature de l' Égypte. Paris 1808.
• Mémoires historiques sur l' Égypte et géographiques. Paris 1811. ( 2 vols )
• Observations sur quelques points de la geography de l' Égypte. Paris 1812.
• Mélanges d' histoire et de philology orientale. Paris 1861 ( posthumously ed. Jules Barthélemy- Saint- Hilaire ).

• Ahmad Al- Maqrizi: History of Mamlucken in Egypt. ( 1837-40, 4 volumes).
• Rashid ad -Din: History of the Mongols ( "Collection orientale "). Paris 1837.