current in the Ottoman Empire and his history work Introduction à l'histoire de l'Asie: Turcs et Mongols des origines à 1405 (1896) had great impact on the nationalistic historiography of the Republican era. Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic had also been an avid reader of Cahun's Introduction à l'histoire de l'Asie which included influence of a Turkish race in the early development of the European civilization. References External links 1841 births 1900 deaths Alsatian Jews People from Haguenau French travel writers French historical novelists 19th-century French Jews French war correspondents French military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War 19th-century journalists French male journalists 19th-century French novelists French male novelists 19th-century French male writers