Charles Barbier of Meynard
See also: Barber
Charles Adrien Casimir Barbier of Meynard , born at sea on a going ship of Constantinople with Marseilles the February 6th 1826 and died in Paris the March 31st 1908, is an orientalist and translator French, specialist in the Islam.
He worked mainly on the beginnings of Islam and the Califat. Specialist in the Arab , the Turkish and the Persan , it supplemented the translation, started with Julius von Mohl, of the Shâh Nâmeh of Ferdowsi under the title the Book of the Kings . It was the first European translation of this major work.
De Meynard represented also many writings of Al Masudi, Ibn Khordadbeh and other historians of the time of the caliphate. He studied the history of the Zoroastrisme, published the Gazetteer of Persia , and wrote on the Bahaïsme which was with its premises.
He was professor of Turkish to the École of the alive Eastern languages starting from 1863, of Persan and Arabic to the Collège de France starting from 1876, president of the Asian Société starting from 1892, and principal of the alive Eastern languages starting from 1898. He was elected member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities in 1878.
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