Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron
1731 to 1805
8 documented presences
7 places
Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron across 7 places, from 1731 to 1805. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron (7 December 1731 to 17 January 1805) was the first professional French Indologist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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7 December 1731exact date
Parisattested
“Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil was born in Paris on 7 December 1731 as the fourth of seven children of Pierre Anquetil, a spice importer.”
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1754year
Collège de Franceattested
“In 1754, Michelangelo-André Le Roux Deshauterayes, who at the time was professor for Arabic at the Collège Royal, showed Anquetil-Duperron a facsimile of four leaves of a Vendidad Sade that had been sent to Deshauterayes's uncle Michel F…”
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1754year
Collattested
“In 1754, Michelangelo-André Le Roux Deshauterayes, who at the time was professor for Arabic at the Collège Royal, showed Anquetil-Duperron a facsimile of four leaves of a Vendidad Sade that had been sent to Deshauterayes's uncle Michel F…”
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7 November 1754exact date
Indiaattested
“Playing on the French antipathy towards the English, in his travelogue he later claimed that after seeing the facsimile pages of the Oxford manuscript, he resolved to "enrich [his] country with that singular work" and the translation of…”
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April 1756month
Chandannagarattested
“As he also wanted to "study the Indian books", he decided to travel to the French colony at Chandannagar, also known in French as Chandernagor, in Bengal, where he arrived in April 1756.”
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April 1756month
Bengalattested
“As he also wanted to "study the Indian books", he decided to travel to the French colony at Chandannagar, also known in French as Chandernagor, in Bengal, where he arrived in April 1756.”
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1772year
Franceattested
“In France, Voltaire poked fun at Anquetil-Duperron and his translation in his article "Zoroastre" (1772) in the Questions sur l'Encyclopédie.”
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17 January 1805exact date
Parisattested
“In 1804, he refused to swear allegiance to Napoleon, stating that "his obeisance [was] to the laws of the government under which he lived and which protected him."apud Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron died in Paris on 17 January 1805.”
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Places Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron is documented in
Paris2 presences · 1731 to 1805Coll1 presence · 1754Collège de France1 presence · 1754France1 presence · 1772India1 presence · 1754
Bengal1 presence · 1756
Chandannagar1 presence · 1756
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1713 to 1754period
Suratmentioned
“Also at the Bodleian was the manuscript collection of James Fraser (1713–1754), who had lived in Surat (a city in present-day Gujarat, India) for over sixteen years, where he had been a Factor of the British East India Company and later…”
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1713 to 1754period
Bodleianmentioned
“Also at the Bodleian was the manuscript collection of James Fraser (1713–1754), who had lived in Surat (a city in present-day Gujarat, India) for over sixteen years, where he had been a Factor of the British East India Company and later…”
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7 February 1755exact date
Indiamentioned
“His friends secured his discharge and, on 7 February 1755, the minister, touched by his romantic zeal for knowledge, granted him free passage, a seat at the captain's table, an allowance of 500 livres from the library, and a letter of in…”
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24 February 1755exact date
Francementioned
“Anquetil-Duperron left France as a free passenger on 24 February 1755.”
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10 August 1755exact date
Puducherry (city)mentioned
“After a passage of six months, Anquetil-Duperron landed on 10 August 1755 at the French colony at Pondicherry, on the coast in south-eastern India.”
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1 March 1758exact date
Suratmentioned
“He arrived in Surat on 1 March 1758, at a time when the Indian Zoroastrians (Parsis) were embroiled in a bitter dispute over the intercalation of the Zoroastrian calendar, which is now called the "Kabiseh controversy".”
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June 1759month
Parismentioned
“In June 1759, 16 months after his arrival in Surat, he sent news to Paris that he had completed (in three months) a translation of the "Vendidad".”
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June 1759month
Suratmentioned
“In June 1759, 16 months after his arrival in Surat, he sent news to Paris that he had completed (in three months) a translation of the "Vendidad".”
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15 March 1761exact date
Suratmentioned
“Anquetil-Duperron left Surat on 15 March 1761.”
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14 March 1762exact date
Parismentioned
“He then set out for France and arrived in Paris on 14 March 1762.”
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1775year
Indiamentioned
“Duperron had received the Persian translation from India in 1775 and had translated that into both French and Latin, but the French translation was never published.”
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1778year
Amsterdammentioned
“In 1778, he published at Amsterdam his ', in which he endeavoured to prove that the nature of oriental despotism had been greatly misrepresented by Montesquieu and others.”
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1801year
Strasbourgmentioned
“The Latin translation was published in Strasbourg in 1801-1802 and represents the first European language translation of a sacred book of Hinduism, albeit in an approximate rendering.”
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