NICOLAS, ALPHONSE (or A.-L-.M. Nicolas, see below; b. Rasht, 27 March 1864, d. Paris, 28 February 1939, Figure 1), French…

JÉQUIER, GUSTAVE, Swiss archeologist (b. Neuchâtel, 14 August 1868; died there, 24th March 1946; Figure 1). After completing his secondary…

JAUBERT, PIERRE AMÉDÉE ÉMILIEN-PROBE (b. Aix-en-Provence, 3 June 1779; d. Paris, 28 January 1847; FIGURE 1), French orientalist who also…

FRANCE viii. TRAVELOGUES OF THE 18TH-20TH CENTURIES 18th Century travelogues. After the fall of the Safavids in 1722, Persia was…

SCHEFER, Charles-Henri-Auguste (b. 16 November 1820, Paris; d. 3 March 1898, Paris), orientalist and academic administrator, as well as minister…

LESĀN-AL-DAWLA, MIRZĀ ʿALI KHAN (b. Tabriz, ca. 1862; d. Tehran, ca. 1920), royal librarian. His career at the royal court…

VIOLLET, Henry (b. Paris, 1880; d. Paris, 1955), French archeologist and architect. His father, Paul-Marie Viollet (1840-1914), was an archivist…

SCHEIL, Father Jean-Vincent (b. Kœnigsmacker [département of Moselle], 10 June 1858; d. Paris, 21 September 1940), French philologist and archeologist….