Charles Defrémery (8 December 1822 – 18 August 1883) was a 19th-century French oriental studies, orientalist, specialist in Arabic and History of Iran, Persian history and Persian literature, literature.
He held the chair of Arabic language and literature at the École des langues orientales and was a member of the Société Asiatique of Paris. On 2 December 1860, he was appointed corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg Academy of Sciences for the Oriental literary department. He was elected a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1869. From 1871, he held the chair of Arabic at the Collège de France.
Selected works
*1842: ''Histoire des sultans du Kharezm, par Mirkhond. Texte persan, accompagné de notes historiques, géographiques et philologiques''
*1845: ''Histoire des Samanides, par Mirkhond. Texte persan, traduit et accompagné de notes critiques, historiques et géographiques''
*1854: ''Voyages d'Ibn Battuta'' (4 volumes, 1853-1859)
*1854:''Mémoires d'histoire orientale, suivis de Mélanges de critique, de philologie et de géographie''
*1858:''Gulistan, ou le Parterre de roses''
'', par Saadi Shirazi, Sadi, traduit du persan et accompagné de notes historiques, géographiques et littéraires''
References
External links
Charles Defréremyon data.bnf.fr
Fiche sur le site de l'Académie des sciences de Russie
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French orientalists
French Arabists
Translators to French
Translators from Persian
Arabic–French translators
French Iranologists
Collège de France faculty
Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Members of the Société Asiatique
1822 births
People from Cambrai
1883 deaths
19th-century French translators