Marie-Frédéric Dubois de Montpéreux

Frédéric DuBois de Montperreux (28 May 1798 – 7 May 1850) was a Swiss traveller and antiquarian.

Life and career Born in Môtiers, he was the son of a merchant. Educated in Neuchâtel, he soon moved to Courland and Lithuania. In 1829–31, he studed at the University of Berlin studied under classical scholar August Boeckh, geographer Carl Ritter, geologist Leopold von Buch, and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. Christina Maranci wrote that Dubois was "the first westerner to identify an Armenian style of architecture" and that his work earn Dubois "the most significant position in the nineteenth-century scholarship on Armenian architecture."