PIERRE AMEDEE

See also:

• PIERRE AMEDEE JAUBERT

JAUBERT  $MILIEN PROBE (1779-1847), French Orientalist, was born at Aix in Provence on the 3rd of June 1779 . He was one of the most distinguished pupils of Silvestre de Sacy, whose funeral Discours he pronounced in 1838 . Jaubert acted as interpreter to Napoleon in Egypt in 1798-1799, and on his return to Paris held various posts under government . In 1802 he accompanied Sebastiani on his Eastern mission; and in 1804 he was at Constantinople . Next year he was despatched to Persia to arrange an alliance with the shah; but on the way he was seized and imprisoned in a dry cistern for four months by the pasha of Bayazid . The pasha's death freed Jaubert, who successfully accomplished his mission, and rejoined Napoleon at Warsaw in 1807 . On the eve of Napoleon's downfall he was appointed charge d'affaires at Constantinople . The restoration ended his diplomatic career, but in 1818 he undertook a journey with government aid to Tibet, whence he succeeded in introducing into France 400 Kashmir goats . The rest of his life Jaubert spent in study, in writing and in teaching . He became professor of Persian in the college de France, and director of the ecole des langues orientales, and in 1830 was elected member of the Academie des Inscriptions . In 1841 he was made a peer of France and councillor of state . He died in Paris on the 28th of January, 1847 .

Besides articles in the

Journal asiatique, he published Voyage en Armenie et en Perse (1821; the edition of 186o has a notice of Jaubert, by M . Sedillot) and Elements de la grammaire turque (1823-1834) . See notices in the Journal asiatique, Jan . 1847, and the Journal des debats, Jan . 30, 1847 .