biographique par Charles Pellat Éloge funèbre de M. le baron Jean-Joseph de Witte, membre de l'Académie des Inscription et belles-lettres / Paris : Institut de France. 1989. Volume 3. (p. 250–252) par Charles Barbier de Meynard. 1826 births 1908 deaths People born at sea 19th-century French historians Scholars of medieval Islamic history French orientalists French Arabists French Iranologists Dragomans Translators from Persian Translators to French Academic staff of the Collège de France Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Members of the Ligue de la patrie française Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Members of the Société Asiatique 19th-century translators