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JEAN PIERRE ABEL REMUSAT (1788-1832)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 83 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:PIERRE See also:ABEL See also:REMUSAT (1788-1832)  , See also:French See also:Chinese See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 5th of See also:September 1788 . He was educated for the medical profession, but a Chinese herbal in the collection of the See also:Abbe Tersan attracted his See also:attention, and he taught himself to read it by See also:great perseverance and with imperfect help . At the end of five years' study he produced in 1811 an Essai sur la langue et la litterature chinoises, and a See also:paper on See also:foreign See also:languages among the Chinese, which procured him the patronage of See also:Silvestre de Sacy . In 1814 a See also:chair of Chinese was founded at the See also:College de See also:France, and See also:Remusat was placed in it . From this See also:time he gave himself wholly to the languages of the Far See also:East, and published a See also:series of useful See also:works, among which his contributions from Chinese See also:sources to the See also:history of the Tatar nations claim See also:special See also:notice . Remusat became an editor of the See also:Journal de savants in 1818, and founder and first secretary of the Paris See also:Asiatic Society in 1822; he also held various See also:Government appointments . He died at Paris on the 4th of See also:June 1832 . A See also:list of his works is given in See also:Querard's France litteraire s.v . Remusat .

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