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Explorer and devout Catholic. He dedicated himself to mapping Ethiopia. Inventor of expeditious geodesy, an extremely precise surveying method which he put into practice in Ethiopia. Specialist in the Basque language.
Sinologist, reviver of this science in France. Doctor of Medicine, member of the council for the improvement of the deaf and mute (1824). He died of cholera in 1832.
A Russian prince, philologist, doctor of theology, diplomat, and writer, he spent his career at the Quai d'Orsay, where he served as an official interpreter. He notably translated numerous works by Sergei Bulgakov and was dean of the Orthodox Theological Institute of Paris, where he taught liturgical theology.
Linguist and colonial administrator, specialist in Khmer culture, first director of the Colonial School.
Scholar and Hebraist, collaborator of Father Thomassin for his Glossarium universale hebraïcum.
Helleniste, il collabore au Thesaurus Graecae Linguae de Valpy (1816-1828).
Indianiste et épigraphiste, membre de l’Académie des Inscriptions, il est l’un des fondateurs de l’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient.
Director of the Madrasa of Tlemcen, in Algeria, from 1905 to 1935, author of numerous works on folklore, history, religion and Maghreb sociology.
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