Pierre Amédée Jaubert

Pierre Amédée Jaubert ( born June 3, 1779 Aix -en- Provence, † January 30, 1847 in Paris) was a French orientalist.

At the École des langues orientales speciales was a student of Silvestre de Sacy Jaubert, one of his classmates was Étienne Marc Quatremère. At the age of 18, he accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte on his Egyptian campaign as an interpreter and was soon afterwards his secretary interpreter. In this position, he translated his proclamations and correspondence with the tribal leaders in the local language.

From 1802 worked Jaubert several years as an interpreter for the French embassy in Constantinople Opel and Persia and then received the post of chargé d'affaires in Constantinople Opel. After his six-month imprisonment in the Ishak Pasha Palace on the eastern border of modern Turkey, he brought the first news about this building to Europe. At the beginning of the Restoration, he resigned and retired to private life.

In 1818 he undertook a new journey to the East to buy Tibetan goats on behalf of the government, of which he brought 400 pieces to France. Subsequently, he was appointed professor of Persian at the Collège de France and in 1841 the State Council and Pair. Since 1831 he was also a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and was, among other things charge of work on Dictionnaire français - berbère.

Works (selection)

• Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806 accompagné d'une carte des pays compris entre Constantinople et Téhéran, dressée par M. le chef d' escadron Lapie, suivi d'une notice sur le Ghilan et le Mazenderan par M. le colonel Trézel. 1821, second edition: Paris 1860
• Elemens de la grammaire turke, à l' usage de l' École royale of élèves et Spéciale des langues orientales vivantes. 1823, second edition: Paris 1833

• Idrisi: geography. Paris 1836-40 ( 2 vols )