Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy

Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy
BornSamuel Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy
17 October 1801
Paris, France
Died14 February 1879 (aged 77)
Paris, France
OccupationJournalist
RelativesAntoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (father)

Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy (17 October 1801 – 14 February 1879) was a French journalist. He was born in Paris, the son of the linguist Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838), who in 1813, was created a baron by Napoleon. His name "Ustazade" means "son of the master" in Persian, presumably due to his father's status as a celebrated orientalist. From 1828 to 1877, he was a literary and political contributor to the Journal des Débats. He became a curator at the Bibliothèque Mazarine in 1836 and became its administrator in 1848. He was elected to the Académie française on 18 May 1854, and became a senator in 1865.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Larousse, Pierre (1877). "SACY (Samuel-Ustazade SILVESTRE DE)". Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, p. 1806 (in French)
  2. ^ Académie française. Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy. Retrieved 22 March 2017 (in French).
  3. ^ Weiss, Jean-Jacques (ed.) (1889)."Silvestre de Sacy". Le livre du centenaire du Journal des débats, 1789-1889, pp. 192–202. E. Plon Nourrit & Cie (in French)