François Pouqueville
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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.
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François Pouqueville | |
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Born | (1770-11-04)4 November 1770 Le Merlerault, Normandy, France |
Died | 20 December 1838(1838-12-20) (aged 68) Paris, France |
Nationality | French |
Occupation(s) | Academician, diplomat, writer, physician, historian, archaeologist |
Known for | His influential diplomacy and writings |
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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[1] and contributed eminently to the liberation of the Greeks and the rebirth of the Greek nation.