About Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Lived 1780 – 1831 (aged 50). Jean-Baptiste Rousseau was a French orientalist and orientalism.
Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Jacques-Joseph Rousseau, most often called Jean-Baptiste Rousseau or Joseph Rousseau, (10 December 1780 – 22 February 1831) was an early 19th-century French orientalist.
He was the son of Jean-François Rousseau or Rousseau of Persia (1753-1808), consul of France in Basra and Baghdad and Anne-Marie Sahid. Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, married with Élisabeth Outrey, was himself consul in Basra in 1805, consul général in Aleppo and to the Tripoli Eyalet (1808).
Works 1809: Description du pachalik de Bagdad, suivi d'une Notice historique sur les Wahabis 1813: Itinéraire de Perse par la voie de Bagdad 1817: Mélanges d’histoire et de littérature orientales 1818: Mémoire sur trois plus fameuses sectes du musulmanisme, les Wahabis, les Nosaïris et les Ismaélis 1818: Notice historique sur la Perse ancienne et moderne
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Who was Jean-Baptiste Rousseau?
French orientalist
When was Jean-Baptiste Rousseau born?
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau was born on 10 December 1780 in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne.
When did Jean-Baptiste Rousseau die?
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau died on 22 February 1831 in Tripoli, Tripoli.
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Jean-Baptiste Rousseau was an orientalist and orientalism.
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Jean-Baptiste Rousseau was French.
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· Wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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