Ange de Saint Joseph (
secular name: Joseph de la Brosse; b. 1636 in
Toulouse
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– d. 1697 in
Perpignan
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) was a
French
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missionary friar of the
Order of Discalced Carmelites. He was a
linguist
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, and wrote works on Oriental pharmacology.
Life
In 1662 he took up the study of Arabic in the
convent of San Pancrazio in Rome, under Celestino à San-Liduvina, brother of the Orientalist
Golius
Jacob Golius born Jacob van Gool (1596 – September 28, 1667) was an Orientalist and mathematician based at the University of Leiden in Netherlands. He is primarily remembered as an Orientalist. He published Arabic texts in Arabic at Leiden, ...
. In 1664 he was sent to the East as missionary, and while visiting
Smyrna
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,
Greece
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, and
Ispahan
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,
Iran
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, was instructed in Persian by Balthazar, a Portuguese Carmelite.
He passed ten years in Persia and Arabia, acting as prior at Ispahan and, later, at
Basra
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,
Iraq
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. On the capture of the latter place by the
Ottoman Turks
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, he went to
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
,
Turkey
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and succeeded in gaining for his mission the protection of the
Sultan
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, through the mediation of the French ambassador.
He was recalled to
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
in 1679, and in 1680 was made superior of missions in the Netherlands, England, and Ireland, where he spent many years. He was Provincial in his order at the time of his death.
Works
His writings are:
*''Pharmacopoeia Persica, ex idiomate persico in latinum conversa''. Paris, 1681.
:Hyde (''
Biographia Britannica
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'', cited by Langlès, ''Biographie universelle'') asserts that the credit for this work really belongs to Père Matthieu.
Another work by Ange de Saint Joseph, which is praised by Bernier, Pétis de la Croix, and Chardin is
*''Gazophylacium linguæ Persarum'', Amsterdam, 1684 (a grammar with a dictionary in Latin, Italian, and French).
References
;Attribution
* The entry cites:
**MARTALIS A SCO. JOANNE-BAPTISTA, Bibl. Script. Carmel. excalceatorum;
**
Nicéron, Mémoires, XXIX, 26.
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1636 births
1697 deaths
Carmelites
French Roman Catholic missionaries
Clergy from Toulouse
Roman Catholic missionaries in Iraq
Roman Catholic missionaries in Turkey
Roman Catholic missionaries in Iran
French expatriates in Iraq
French expatriates in Iran
French expatriates in Turkey
Latin-language writers from France