Abraham Constantine Mouradgea d'Ohsson (26 November 1779, in Constantinople – 25 December 1851, in Berlin), was a Swedish historian and diplomat of Armenian descent. He was the son of

Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson Ignatius Mouradgea d'Ohsson (31 July 1740 – 27 August 1807) was an Armenian orientalist, historian and diplomat in Swedish service. In 1768 he was supreme interpreter, in its subsequent elevation to the Swedish nobility, he participated in the ...

. His best known work deals with the history of the

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Career

Constantine d'Ohsson came to Sweden in 1798, and graduated from the

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in 1799. That same year he became clerk at the Foreign office and spent 1801–03 as an attaché in Paris, where he occupied himself with researches in Oriental history. He was a legation secretary in Madrid in 1805–06, at the embassy of the

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royal court in 1807–08, in Seville (where the Spanish insurrectionary government had its headquarters) in part of 1809, and in Paris, where he served as

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from 1811 to 1813. Later he served a term as Cabinet Secretary to Crown Prince Karl Johan, was appointed in 1816 to the Swedish Minister at The Hague, was moved in the same capacity to Berlin in 1834 and recalled from there in 1850.

Honors

Mouradgea converted from Catholic to Lutheran in 1815. In 1828 he was elevated to baronial position. He became a member of the

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in 1817, an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Letters in 1823 and in 1828 of the

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Academics

He studied chemistry and mineralogy under by Berzelius, and authored several essays for the Academy of Sciences as well as documents on

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(La pression de l'air et les theorem d'hydrodynamique, 1852). However, he devoted most of his time to historical research. He published in 1820 the third part of his father's work, "Tableau Général de l'Empire othoman" and wrote "Des Peuple you Caucase ou Voyage d'Abou-l-Cassim" (1828) and "Histoire des Mongols depuis Tchinguis-Khan jusqu'à Timour" (1834–35; new edition 1852), a widely referenced work. Before he died, d'Ohsson donated about 300 books and more than a dozen manuscripts to the

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. The baronial family d'Ohsson became extinct after his death.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ohsson, Abraham Constantine Mouradgea 1779 births 1851 deaths Diplomats of the Ottoman Empire Swedish orientalists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Armenians from the Ottoman Empire Swedish people of Armenian descent Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire Immigrants to Sweden Ambassadors of Sweden to France Ambassadors of Sweden to the Netherlands Uppsala University alumni Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala