Joseph Toussaint Reinaud (4 December 1795 – 14 May 1867) was a French orientalist.

Life

Joseph Toussaint Reinaud was born at

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. He came to Paris in 1815, and became a pupil of

Silvestre de Sacy Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy (; 21 September 175821 February 1838), was a French nobleman, linguist and orientalist. His son, Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy, became a journalist. Life and works Early life Silvestre de Sacy was born in Pa ...

. In 1818-19 he was at

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as an attaché to the French minister, during which time, he conducted investigations of manuscripts. In 1824 he entered the department of oriental manuscripts in the Royal Library at Paris, and in 1838, on the death of De Sacy, he succeeded to his chair in the School of Living Oriental Languages. In 1847 he became president of the

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, and in 1858 conservator of oriental manuscripts in the Imperial Library. His first important work was his classic description of the collections of the Duc de Blacas (1828). To history he contributed an essay on the Arab invasions of France, Savoy,

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and Switzerland (''Invasions des Sarrazins en France, et de France en Savoie, en Piémont et dans la Suisse'', 1836), and various collections for the period of the

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; he edited (1840), and in part translated (1848), the geography of

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. To him too is due a useful edition of the very curious records of early Arab intercourse with China of which

Eusèbe Renaudot Eusèbe Renaudot (; 20 July 16461 September 1720) was a French theologian and Orientalist. Biography Renaudot was born in Paris, and brought up and educated for a career in the church. After being educated by the Jesuits, and joining the Oratori ...

had given but an imperfect translation (''Relation des voyages'', etc., 1845), and various other essays illustrating the ancient and medieval geography of the East.

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