François Pouqueville
François Charles Hugues Laurent Pouqueville (French: [pukvil]; 4 November 1770 – 20 December 1838) was a French diplomat, writer, explorer, physician and historian, and member of the Institut de France.
François Pouqueville | |
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François Pouqueville in front of Ioannina, by Henriette Lorimier, 1830 | |
| Born | 4 November 1770 Le Merlerault, Normandy, France |
| Died | 20 December 1838 (aged 68) Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Academician, diplomat, writer, physician, historian, archaeologist |
| Known for | His influential diplomacy and writings |
He traveled extensively throughout Ottoman-occupied Greece from 1798 to 1820; first as the Turkish sultan's hostage, then as Napoleon Bonaparte's general consul at the court of Ali Pasha of Ioannina.
With his far reaching diplomacy and writings, he became a prominent architect of the Philhellenism movement throughout Europe and contributed eminently to the liberation of the Greeks and the rebirth of the Greek nation.
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