Abel Pavet de Courteille
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| Born | Abel Jean Baptiste Michel Pavet de Courteille 23 June 1821 Paris |
| Died | 12 December 1889 (aged 68) Paris |
| Occupation | Orientalist |
Abel Jean Baptiste Michel Pavet de Courteille (23 June 1821 – 12 December 1889) was a 19th-century French orientalist, who specialized in the study of Turkic languages.
Career
Through his mother, Sophie Silvestre (1793-1877), he was
Société asiatique
. He led Turcology to the study of Central Asian languages and was the author of a dictionary of Eastern Turkish and of several editions and translations of texts.
He is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (44th division).[1]
Publications
- Dictionnaire turk-oriental, destiné principalement à faciliter la lecture des ouvrages de Aboul-Gâzi et de Ali-Shir Nava'i, Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1870 (562 pages).
- (with Abdolonyme Ubicini) État présent de l'Ottoman Empire: statistique, gouvernement, administration, finances, armée, communautés non musulmanes, etc., d'après le Salnâmèh (Annuaire impérial) pour l'année 1293 de l'Hégire (1875-76) et les documents officiels les plus récents, Paris, J. Dumaine, 1876.
Editions and translations
- Conseils de Nabi Efendi[2] à son fils Aboul Khair, published in Turkish with French translation and notes, Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1857.
- Histoire de la campagne de Mohacz, by Kemal Pacha Zadeh,[3] published for the first time with the French translation and notes, Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1859.
- Mémoires de Baber (Zahir-ed-Din-Mohammed), founder of the Mongol dynasty in Hindustan, translated from the Chagatai text, Paris, Maisonneuve, 1871.
- Miraj Nameh, published after the Uyghur manuscript, translated and annotated, Paris, E. Leroux, 1882.
- Tezkereh-i-Evliâ. Le Mémorial des Saints, translated from the Uighur manuscript of the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, 1889-90 (2 vol.).
- (with Charles Barbier de Meynard) Al-Masudi. Les Prairies d'or, Arabic text and French translation, Paris, Imprimerie impériale (nationale), 1861-77 (9 volumes;[4] collection of oriental works published by the Société asiatique).
References
- ^ Moiroux, Jules (1908). Le cimetière du Père Lachaise. Paris: S. Mercadier. p. 271.
- ^ Nabi Efendi (1642–1712 in Aleppo), greatest Turkish poet of his time, especially appreciated by the Sultan Mustafa II, author of a Divan and a collection of letters.
- ^ Kemal Pacha Zadeh (d. 1534), chronicler and poet, author of an account of Suleiman the Magnificent's campaign which led to the Battle of Mohács (1526).
- ^ He attended the first three volumes.
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