JEAN

See also:

• PIERRE

PIERRE

See also:

• ABEL (Hebrew for breath)
• ABEL (better ABELL), THOMAS (d. 1540)
• ABEL, KARL FRIEDRICH (1725-1787)
• ABEL, NIELS HENRIK (1802-1829)
• ABEL, SIR FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, BART

ABEL

See also:

• JEAN PIERRE ABEL REMUSAT (1788-1832)

REMUSAT (1788-1832)  , French Chinese scholar, was born in Paris on the 5th of September 1788 . He was educated for the medical profession, but a Chinese herbal in the collection of the Abbe Tersan attracted his attention, and he taught himself to read it by 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 paper on foreign languages among the Chinese, which procured him the patronage of Silvestre de Sacy . In 1814 a chair of Chinese was founded at the College de France, and Remusat was placed in it . From this time he gave himself wholly to the languages of the Far East, and published a series of useful works, among which his contributions from Chinese sources to the history of the Tatar nations claim special notice . Remusat became an editor of the Journal de savants in 1818, and founder and first secretary of the Paris Asiatic Society in 1822; he also held various Government appointments . He died at Paris on the 4th of June 1832 . A list of his works is given in Querard's France litteraire s.v . Remusat .