Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon

Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon (born in Paris, 7 April 1730; died 1811) was a French historian and librarian.

He first worked at the

He was responsible for saving up to 800,000 printed books threatened with destruction in the early years of the French Revolution.^[5] Many of these found a home at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, of which he became director in 1800 (perpetual administrator in 1804).^[2]

Major works

• Histoire du commerce et de la navigation des Égyptiens, sous le Règne des Ptolémées (1766).
• Histoire du Bas-Empire en commençant à Constantin le Grand par Charles Le Beau (vols 22–29, 1781–1817).
• Éclaircissements sur l'inscription grecque du monument trouvé à Rosette (1803).

Bibliography

• Hélène Dufresne, Érudition et esprit public au XVIIIe siècle: le bibliothécaire Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon (1730-1811). Paris: Nizet, 1962

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