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Orientalist and who

The French
Orientalist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
, who had been discussing this work
with Åkerblad
, received in 1801 from Jean-Antoine Chaptal
, French minister of
the interior
, one of
the early lithographic prints of
the Rosetta Stone
, and realised that
the middle text
was in this same script
.

Russian
Orientalist art
was largely
concerned with the areas of Central Asia that Russia
was conquering during
the century
, and also in historical painting
with the Mongols
who had dominated Russia for much of
the Middle Ages
, who were rarely shown in a good light
.

This
was in response to a paper read by Gustav Oppert
, a German
Orientalist, who traced
the origin of
the Shalagrama-Shila and
the Shiva-Linga to phallicism
.

The last nail into
the coffin of
the idea of there being a Cathay as a country separate from China
was, perhaps
, driven in 1654
, when
the Dutch
Orientalist Jacobus Golius met
with the China-based Jesuit Martino Martini
, who was passing through Leyden
.

Cathay title pageIn 1913
, Pound
was contacted by
the widow of
the recently deceased
Orientalist Ernest Fenollosa
, who while in Japan had collected word-by-word translations and notes for 150 classical Chinese poems that fit in closely
with this program
.

War elephants also remain a popular artistic trope
, either in
the Orientalist painting tradition of
the 19th century
, or in literature following Tolkien
, who popularised a fantastic rendition of war elephants in
the form of oliphaunts
.

* In Pakistan
, the Lahore chapter of
the Goethe-Institut is named " Annemarie Schimmel Haus ", in honour of
the well-known German
Orientalist and scholar
, who wrote extensively on Islam and Sufism ;
the Annemarie-Schimmel-Haus shares its premises
with the Alliance française Lahore ( AF ), and together they organise joint cultural events
.

Annemarie Schimmel
, SI
, HI
, ( in Erfurt
, Germany – in Bonn
, Germany )
was a well known and very influential German
Orientalist and scholar
, who wrote extensively on Islam and Sufism
.

Before he left Paris to take up his duties he had several interviews
with Julius Mohl
, the eminent
Orientalist, who pointed out to him that Mosul
was the centre of a district of great historical and archaeological importance
, and urged him to make good use of
the splendid opportunity which he would enjoy for collecting antiquities
, and even for making excavations on his own account
.

An important educator during
the modernization of Japan during
the Meiji Era
, Fenollosa
was an enthusiastic
Orientalist who did much to preserve traditional Japanese art
.

Phule
, on
the other hand
, celebrated Bali as
the king of
the people
, peasants or original inhabitants of India ( as opposed to Aryan Brahmins
, who came to India from Iran
, in accordance
with the Orientalist theories prevalent in that period ).

Vesoul
was the birthplace of Jean-Léon Gérôme ( 1824 – 1904 ), painter and sculptor
who produced many works in a historical
, Orientalist style
.

At Oxford he also made
the acquaintance of William Jones
, the famous
Orientalist, who induced him to study
Arabic.

Herbert
was in his own right a considerable
Orientalist, and a linguist
who spoke French
, Italian
, German
, Turkish
, Arabic, Greek and Albanian as well as English
.

Max Mueller
, a great
Orientalist who edited
the series The Sacred Books of
the East has concluded convincingly that de Nobili did not author
the forged work
.

Reiss is best known as
the author of The
Orientalist, a biography of Lev Nussimbaum
, a Jew
who pretended to be a Muslim while living in Germany during
the years leading up to
the Holocaust
.

A picture of
Orientalist painter Maurice Boitel
, who painted in
the city for a while
, can be found in
the museum of Béjaïa
.

" This is held to be
the result of
Orientalist scholars attempting to glorify Eastern cultures
, who refused to translate verse
with homoerotic references or changed
the sex of
the beloved to female
.

In 1613
, Pieter Nuyts
, who was staying in Leiden
with the famous
Orientalist Erpenius
, is known to have met
with the Moroccan envoy in
the Low Countries Al-Hajari
.
Orientalist and Arabic

By
the turn of
the twentieth century it had begun to be displaced by
the shorter and purely
Arabic term Islam and by 1938
, when
Orientalist scholars completed The Encyclopaedia of Islam
, seems to have virtually disappeared from
the English language
.

Wheeler M
. Thackston
, Jr
. ( born 1944 ) is
an Orientalist and distinguished editor and translator of numerous Chaghatai
, Arabic and Persian literary and historical sources
.

* William Wright ( orientalist ) ( 1830 – 1889 ), British
Orientalist, grammarian and researcher of Syriac and
Arabic

Samuel Lee ( 1783 – 1852 )
was an English
Orientalist, born in Shropshire ; professor at Cambridge
, first of
Arabic and then of Hebrew language ;
was the author of a Hebrew grammar and lexicon
, and a translation of
the Book of Job
.
Orientalist and was

The longest single English translation
was published in 1834 by Ritter Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall
, an Austrian
Orientalist ; it may be found under
the name " Evliya Efendi
.

Simon Ockley ( 1678 – 9 August 1720 )
was a British
Orientalist.

In 1909 he resigned from
the Theosophical Society which
was Orientalist.

In particular
, Orientalist painting
, depicting more specifically "
the Middle East ",
was one of
the many specialisms of 19th century Academic art
.

Such disdain did not prevent
the Société des Peintres Orientalistes (" Society of
Orientalist Painters ") being founded in 1893
, with Jean-Léon Gérôme as honorary president ;
the word
was less often used as a term for artists in 19th century England
.

Said
was mainly
concerned with literature in
the widest sense
, especially French literature
, and did not cover visual art and
Orientalist painting
, though others
, notably Linda Nochlin
, have tried to extend his analysis to art
, "
with uneven results ".

French
Orientalist painting
was transformed by Napoleon's ultimately unsuccessful invasion of Egypt and Syria in 1798-1801
, which stimulated great public interest in Egyptology
, and
was also recorded in subsequent years by Napoleon's court painters
, especially Baron Gros
, although
the Middle Eastern campaign
was not one on which he accompanied
the army
.

Like many later
Orientalist painters
, he
was frustrated by
the difficulty of sketching subjects including women
, and many of his scenes featured Jews or warriors on horses
.

Some outstanding mathematical and
Orientalist works emerged at this time – notably
, texts edited by Edward Pococke
, the Regius Professor of Hebrew – but no university press on Laud's model
was possible before
the Restoration of
the Monarchy in 1660
.

Richard Dadd ( 1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886 )
was an English painter of
the Victorian era
, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects
, Orientalist scenes
, and enigmatic genre scenes
, rendered
with obsessively minuscule detail
.

Maj .- Gen
. Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
, 1st Baronet GCB ( April 5
, 1810 – March 5
, 1895 )
was a British East India Company army officer
, politician and
Orientalist, sometimes described as
the Father of Assyriology
.

Owen Jones
, architect and
Orientalist was requested to set out key principles of design and these became not only
the basis of
the schools teaching but also
the propositions which preface The Grammar of Ornament 1856
, which is still regarded as
the finest systematic study or practical sourcebook of historic world ornament
.

A love of Oriental languages and literature led him to exchange
the University of Breslau for that of Berlin
, in order to study to greater advantage
, and there he
was received into
the house of
the Orientalist Heinrich Friedrich von Diez ( 1750 – 1817 ).

Edward Pococke ( baptised 8 November 1604 – 10 September 1691 )
was an English
Orientalist and biblical scholar
.

Sir Henry Yule ( 1 May 1820 – 30 December 1889 )
was a Scottish
Orientalist.

The term
was first attested to in English in 1786
, in William Beckford's
Orientalist novel Vathek
, which describes
the ghūl of Arabian folklore
.
Orientalist and especially

Other scenes
, especially in genre painting
, have been seen as either closely comparable to their equivalents set in modern-day or historical Europe
, or as also reflecting
an Orientalist mind-set in
the Saidian sense of
the term
.

The subject
was especially popular
with German Romantic painters
, and later in
the 19th century
was one of a number of New Testament subjects which lent themselves to
Orientalist treatment
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