Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon (born in Paris, 7 April 1730; died 1811) was a French historian and librarian.
He first worked at the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris, the city of Paris historical library. In 1766 he published a history of trade and seafaring in Ptolemaic Egypt, a work that was commended by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; [1] he became a member of the academy in 1766. [2] He completed the multi-volume Histoire du Bas-Empire, a history of the Later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe, left unfinished by Charles Le Beau. [3] Taking up the work of Gabriel de La Porte du Theil he produced the first published translation (into Latin and French) of the Greek inscription on the Rosetta Stone: this was published in 1803. [4]
He was responsible for saving up to 800,000 printed books threatened with destruction in the early years of the French Revolution. [5] Many of these found a home at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, of which he became director in 1800 (perpetual administrator in 1804). [2]
Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau was a 19th-century French historian, journalist and administrator.
Charles le Beau was a French historical writer.
Jean Antoine Letronne was a French archaeologist.
Jean-Jacques Barthélemy was a French Catholic clergyman, archaeologist, numismatologist and scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. He deciphered the Palmyrene alphabet in 1754 and the Phoenician alphabet in 1758.
Jean Paul Louis François Édouard Leuge-Dulaurier was a French Orientalist, Armenian studies scholar and Egyptologist.
Maurice Jules Abel Lefranc was a historian of French literature, expert on Rabelais, and the principal advocate of the Derbyite theory of Shakespeare authorship.
Francois-Jean-Gabriel de La Porte du Theil was a French historian. He played a role in the early attempts to decipher the Rosetta Stone.
Louis Isaac de Beausobre was a German philosopher and political economist of French Huguenot descent. He was born in Berlin, the son of the French Protestant churchman and ecclesiastical historian Isaac de Beausobre and his second wife, Charlotte Schwarz. He is not to be confused with his elder half-brother, the pastor and theologian Charles Louis de Beausobre (1690–1753).
Alexandre Moret was a French Egyptologist.
VicomteOlivier Charles Camille Emmanuel de Rouge was a French Egyptologist, philologist and a member of the House of Rougé.
The Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, more often known simply as Histoire des deux Indes, is an encyclopaedia on commerce between Europe and the Far East, Africa, and the Americas. It was published anonymously in Amsterdam in 1770 and attributed to Abbot Guillaume Thomas Raynal. It achieved considerable popularity and went through numerous editions. The third edition, published in Geneva in 1780, was censored in France the following year.
Charles Samaran was a 20th-century French historian and archivist, who was born in Cravencères and died at Nogaro, shortly before his 103rd birthday.
Jean-Baptiste de Bouge (1757–1833) was a Belgian cartographer whose career spanned decades of major political upheaval, his country in turn being the Austrian Netherlands, the United Belgian States, the French First Republic, the Napoleonic Empire, and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, before becoming the Kingdom of Belgium. He often worked with the cartographic engraver Philippe Joseph Maillart.
Louis Charles André Alexandre Du Mège or Dumège,, was a French scholar, archaeologist and historian.
François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal (1780–1858), knight, was a civil servant in the First French Empire who became a Belgian historian and archivist.
The Carpentras Stele is a stele found at Carpentras in southern France in 1704 that contains the first published inscription written in the Phoenician alphabet, and the first ever identified as Aramaic. It remains in Carpentras, at the Bibliothèque Inguimbertine, in a "dark corner" on the first floor. Older Aramaic texts were found since the 9th century BC, but this one is the first Aramaic text to be published in Europe. It is known as KAI 269, CIS II 141 and TAD C20.5.
Charles Petit-Dutaillis was a French medieval historian specializing in the history of the Middle Ages in France and England.
The Prix Bordin is a series of prizes awarded annually by each of the five institutions making up the Institut Français since 1835.
Jean-Denis Barbié was a French geographer and cartographer, dean of the Faculté de lettres de Paris and a member of the Institut de France. He was also known as Barbié du Bocage and Barbier du Bocage.