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See also:JOSEPH DE See also:GUIGNES (1721—1800)
, See also:French orientalist, was See also:born at See also:Pontoise on the 19th of See also:October 1721
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He succeeded See also:Fourmont at the Royal Library as secretary interpreter of the Eastern See also:languages
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A Memoire historique sur l'origine See also:des See also:Huns et des Turcs, published by de See also:Guignes in 1748, obtained his See also:admission to the Royal Society of See also:London in 1952, and he became an See also:associate of the French See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions in 1754
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Two years later he began to publish his learned and laborious Histoire generale des Huns, des Mongoles, des Turcs el des autres Tartares occidentaux (1756—1758); and in 1757 he was appointed to the See also:chair of See also:Syriac at the See also:College de See also:France
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He maintained that the See also:Chinese nation had originated in See also:Egyptian colonization, an See also:opinion to which, in spite of every See also:argument, he obstinately clung
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He died in See also:Paris in 1800
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The Histoire had been translated into See also:German by Dahnert (1768-5771)
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De Guignes See also:left a son, See also:Christian See also: |
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