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See also:ETIENNE MARC See also:QUATREMERE (1782-1857)
, See also:French Orientalist, the son of a Parisian See also:merchant, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 12th of See also:July 1782
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Employed in 1807 in the See also:manuscript See also:department of the imperial library, he passed to the See also:chair of See also:Greek in See also:Rouen in 1809, entered the See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions in 1815, taught See also:Hebrew and Aramaic in the See also:College de See also:France from 1819, and finally in 1827 became See also:professor of See also:Persian in the School of Living See also:Oriental See also:Languages
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See also:Quatremere's first See also:work was Recherches
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. sur la langue et la litterature de l'Egypte (18o8), showing that the See also:language of See also:ancient See also:Egypt must be sought in Coptic
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His See also:translation of Makrizi's Arabic See also:history of the See also:Mameluke sultans (2 vols., 1837–41) shows his erudition at the best
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He published among other See also:works Memoires sur See also:les Nabateens (1835); a translation of Rashid al-Din's Hist. See also:des See also:Mongols de la Perse (1836); Mem. geog. et hist. sur l'Egypte 081o); the See also:text of See also:Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena; and a vast number of useful See also:memoirs in the See also:Journal asiatique
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His numerous reviews in the Journal des savants should also be mentioned
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Quatremere made See also:great lexicographic collections in Oriental languages, fragments of which appear in the notes to his various works
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His MS. material for See also:Syriac has been utilized in See also:Payne See also:
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