Étienne Marc Quatremère
Étienne Marc Quatremère (12 July 1782, Paris – 18 September 1857, Paris) was a French Orientalist.
Biography
Born into a
Employed in 1807 in the manuscript department of the imperial library, he passed to the chair of
Quatremère's first work was Recherches ... sur la langue et la littérature de l'Egypte (1808), showing that the language of ancient Egypt must be sought in Coptic.[2]
His Mémoires géographiques et historiques sur l'Égypte… sur quelques contrées voisines was published in 1811. This publication forced
Quatremère edited and translated part of Al-Maqrizi's, (1364–1442), Arabic History of the Memaluke Sultans (2 vols., 1837–41), "not because he had all that much interest in the history of Mamluk Egypt, but rather because he was fascinated by the vocabulary of fifteenth-century Arabic and particularly in those lexicographic nuggets that had not been defined in the standard of Arabic dictionaries".[1]
He published among other works Mémoires sur les Nabatéens (1835); a translation of
Quatremère made great lexicographic collections in Oriental languages, fragments of which appear in the notes to his various works. His manuscript material for
A biographical notice by Barthélemy Sainte-Hilaire is prefixed to Quatremère's Mélanges d'histoire et de philologie orientale (1861). Quatremère's grave is in the 32nd division of the Père Lachaise Cemetery of Paris.[5]
Sources
- Lesley & Roy Adkins (2000). The Keys of Egypt. London: HarperCollins.
- Robert Graham Irwin(2006). For Lust of Knowing. London: Allen Lane.
References
- ^ a b c Irwin, 148
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Adkins & Adkins, 97-8
- ^ "About the Collection". Website of the Bavarian State Library's Oriental Collection. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
- ^ "QUATREMERE Marc Etienne (1782-1857)". Appl-lachaise.net. Retrieved 2015-08-30.
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Quatremère, Étienne Marc". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 724. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the