Jean-Henri-Abdolonyme Ubicini (20 October 1818 – 28 October 1884) was a French historian, journalist and honorary member of the
Romanian Academy.
He was born in
Issoudun,
Indre
Indre (; oc, Endre) is a landlocked department in central France named after the river Indre. The inhabitants of the department are known as the ''Indriens'' (masculine; ) and ''Indriennes'' (feminine; ). Indre is part of the current administ ...
in a middle-class family originating in
Lombardy
Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 ...
. After studying in his native town as well as in
Versailles, in 1839 he became a
rhetoric
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...
teacher at
Joigny. Beginning with 1844, he took extensive journeys through
Italy,
Greece and the
Ottoman Empire. While in
Bucharest, he took part in the
Wallachian Revolution of 1848
The Wallachian Revolution of 1848 was a Romanian liberal and nationalist uprising in the Principality of Wallachia. Part of the Revolutions of 1848, and closely connected with the unsuccessful revolt in the Principality of Moldavia, it sought t ...
, becoming secretary of the provisional government and of the Princely Lieutenancy. When the combined
Russian and Ottoman forces suppressed the revolution, he left
Wallachia for
Constantinople, where he spent some time before returning to France.
Settling at Paris, he published several studies on the Ottoman Empire and the
Danubian Principalities
The Danubian Principalities ( ro, Principatele Dunărene, sr, Дунавске кнежевине, translit=Dunavske kneževine) was a conventional name given to the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, which emerged in the early 14th ce ...
, among the more important being ''Lettres sur la Turquie'' ("Letters on Turkey"). He founded the journal ''Revue de l'Orient'' and contributed to several other journals, such as ''
Le Siècle'', ''
La Presse'' and ''Courier de Paris''. In his writings, Ubicini usually adopted a pro-Romanian point of view.
In 1867 he received
Romanian citizenship.
Works
* On the
Ottoman Constitution:
PDF file* with
Abel Pavet de Courteille
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 Antoi ...
. ''État présent de l'empire ottoman''. Dumaine, 1876
Available at Google Books
References
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1818 births
1884 deaths
People from Issoudun
Honorary members of the Romanian Academy
Naturalised citizens of Romania
19th-century French journalists
French male journalists
French male writers
19th-century French male writers
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