User:Marsupium/Orientalism
Some orientalists and others from Said: Orientalism:
| Person | Work | Notes | Pages | DOB | POB | DOD | POD | language(s) | member of |
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| Barthélemy d'Herbelot (Q809421) Barthélemy d'Herbelot (de Molainville) | Bibliothèque (orientale, ou dictionnaire universel contenant tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient) | 1625 | Paris | 1695 | Paris | French
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| Simon Ockley (Q2401430) | (The) History of the Saracen( Empire)s (vol. I 1708, vol. II 1718) | 1678 | Exeter | 1720 | Swavesey | English
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| (Q1684659) (Abbé) (Jean-Baptiste) Le Mascrier | Description de l’Égypte (1735) | 1697 | Caen | 1760 | Paris | French
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| Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron (Q330089) | 1731 | Paris | 1805 | Paris | French, Latin
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| William Jones (philologist) (Q273969) (Sir) William Jones | Objects of Enquiry During my Residence in Asia | founder of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1784-01 (1783? (p. 79)) with Nathaniel Halhed and Colebrooke | 1746 | London | 1794 | Kolkata | Sanskrit, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Italian, English
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| Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (Q4495159) Nathaniel (Brassey) Halhed | British orientalist and philologist, MP | 1751 | Westminster | 1830 | London | English
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| Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney (Q466093) Comte de Volney | Voyage en Ègypte et en Syrie (1787; 2 vols.) | 1757 | Craon | 1820 | Paris | French
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| Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (Q507774) Sylvestre de Sacy | “first modern and institutional European Orientalist” (p. 18), “first and only teacher of Arabic an the Ècole publique des langues orientales” 1796-06/; teacher of Champollion and of Franz Bopp | 18,83,123–130 | 1758 | Paris | 1838 | Paris | French, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, Syriac, Samaritan Aramaic, Persian, English, German, Italian, Spanish
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| Henry Thomas Colebrooke (Q237271) | English orientalist and mathematician; “the first great Sanskrit scholar in Europe”[1] | 1765 | London | 1837 | London | English
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| Joseph Fourier (Q8772) Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier | Description de l’Égypte, préface historique | mathematician | 84–86 | 1768 | Auxerre | 1830 | Paris | French
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| Edward William Lane (Q981894) Edward William Lane | Victorian orientalist | 1801 | Hereford | 1876 | Worthing | English, Arabic
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| Ernest Renan (Q157155) Ernest Renan | 130ff. | 1823 | Tréguier | 1892 | 5th arrondissement of Paris | French, Breton, Hebrew
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| H. A. R. Gibb (Q1371875) (Sir) H(amilton) A. R. Gibb | Modern Trends in Islam (1947[2]) | “the greatest name in modern Anglo-American Islamic studies” | (11), 53 | 1895 | Alexandria | 1971 | Shipston-on-Stour | English
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Q5879) | Westöstlicher Diwan; Mahometsgesang | 100 | 1749 | Frankfurt | 1832 | Weimar | German
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| Friedrich Schlegel (Q157271) | Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (1808) | 1772 | Hanover | 1829 | Dresden | German | |||
Learned societies[edit]
- The Asiatic Society (Asiatick Society (-1825), The Asiatic Society (1825-32), The Asiatic Society of Bengal (1832-6), The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal (1836-1951), The Asiatic Society (1951-07-01--); d:Q374902), founded 1784 by William Jones with Nathaniel Halhed and Colebrooke
- Société Asiatique (d:Q1226248), founded 1922, members: Sylvestre de Sacy, Renan, Rémusat, Burnouf, …
- Royal Asiatic Society (of Great Britain and Ireland) (RAS; d:Q1417172), founded 1923, members: William Jones, Colebrooke, …
- American Oriental Society, founded 1842