Joseph de Guignes

Joseph de Guignes (* October 19, 1721 in Pontoise, † March 19, 1800 in Paris) was a French orientalist and sinologist.

Guignes studied in Paris, the Oriental languages ​​, was secretary in 1745 at the Royal Library, in 1757 professor of Syriac at the Collège de France, 1769 overseer of antiquities in the Louvre and in 1773 a member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres.

Robbed by the revolution in his place, he died on March 19, 1800 in Paris in great penury. With particular zeal G. ran the study of Chinese. ( - 1758, 4 vols Paris in 1756. ) His main work is the Histoire générale des Turcs, the Mogols etc.. He also translated the Shujing (Paris 1771) and published a large number Mémoires. His son, Chrétien -Louis- Joseph de Guignes traveled in 1794 as an interpreter of the Dutch businessman Isaac Titsingh to the court of the Chinese emperor Qianlong.

Works (selection)

  • General History of the Huns and Turks, the Mogols and other Occidental Tartars, before and after Christ's birth up to present times: From the Chinese books and Oriental Manuscripts of the Royal. Library in Paris verfasset. Translated from the French by Johann Carl Dähnert, royally. Professor and Librarian in Greifswald. Roese, 4 volumes, 1769-1771. ( Histoire générale des Huns, the Turcs, the Mogols, et des autres Tartares occidentaux, & c avant et depuis Jesus-Christ jusqu'à présent. Précédée d'une introduction contenant the tables chronol. & historiques des princes qui ont Regné dans l ' Asie; ouvrage tiré des livres chinois, & the manuscrits orientaux de la Bibliothèque du Roi ).
  • , Armenian language were printed at Paris, on the books, which in Arab, Syriac and the Greek writings of Francis I Hildburghausen, 1790: Historical Essay on the origin of oriental writings of the Royal Library at Paris. ..

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  • Orientalist
  • Sinologist
  • Member of the Royal Society
  • Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1721
  • Died in 1800
  • Man
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