Histoire des Mongols, depuis Tchinguiz-Khan jusqu'à Timour Bey, ou Tamerlan : tome second / par m. le baron C. D'Ohsson.

“Baron Abraham Constantin d’Ohsson’s Histoire des Mongols, depuis Tchinguiz-Khan jusqu'à Timour Bey, ou Tamerlan (History of the Mongols, from Genghis Khan to Timur, or Tamerlane) is considered the first serious Western study of the Mongols. It was published in Paris in 1824 and reissued in this four-volume edition in Amsterdam and The Hague in 1834‒35. D’Ohsson was born in Turkey in 1779. His father, Ignatius Mouradgea (1740–1807), was the son of a French mother and an Armenian Catholic father who was employed as a translator at the Swedish consulate in Izmir, Ottoman Turkey, and who adopted the name d’Ohsson in 1787. Ignatius followed his father’s career path and became a translator for the Swedish embassy in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul). This allowed Abraham Constantin to move to Sweden in 1798, where he graduated from the…”—copied from website.

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