Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (orientalist)

Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Jacques-Joseph Rousseau, most often called Jean-Baptiste Rousseau or Joseph Rousseau, (10 December 1780 – 22 February 1831) was an early 19th-century French orientalist.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Born
Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Jacques-Joseph Rousseau

10 December 1780
Died22 February 1831(1831-02-22) (aged 50)
Marseille
Occupation(s)Orientalist
Iranologist
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SpouseÉlisabeth Outrey

He was the son of Jean-François Rousseau or Rousseau of Persia (1753-1808), consul of France in Basra and Baghdad and Anne-Marie Sahid. Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, married with Élisabeth Outrey, was himself consul in Basra in 1805, consul général in Aleppo and to the Tripoli Eyalet (1808).

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