Armand-Pierre Caussin de Perceval

Biography
1795 - 1871

About the artist

Armand-Pierre Caussin de Perceval (1795–1871) was a French orientalist. He was born in Paris on 13 January 1795. Caussin de Perceval went to Constantinople as a student translator and. After he had stayed with the Maronites in Libanon for a year, he became a dragoman at Aleppo in Syria. When he came back to Paris, he was appointed to the Chair of modern Arabic in the School of Living Oriental Languages in 1821 and he was appointed professor of Arabic in the Collège de France in 1833. He was elected to the Academy of Inscriptions in 1849. He died on 15 January 1871 at the Siege of Paris. He is known for his work “Essai sur l'histoire des Arabes avant l'Islamisme, pendant l'époque de Mahomet” which was published in three volumes from 1847 to 1849. The book describes the early history of the Arabs, the death of Muhammad and the subjection of all the tribes to Islam afterwards.

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