Pierre Amédée Emilien Probe Jaubert was a French diplomat, academic, orientalist, translator, politician, and traveler. He was Napoleon's "favourite orientalist adviser and dragoman".
Pierre Amédée Jaubert, circa 1805
Amédée Jaubert accompanied the Persian Envoy Mirza Mohammad-Reza Qazvini at Finkenstein Castle to meet with Napoleon on 27 Avril 1807 for the Treaty of Finkenstein. Painting by François Mulard.
General Gardane, with colleagues Amédée Jaubert and Joanin, at the Persian court of Fath Ali Shah in 1808.
A dragoman was an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish-, Arabic-, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East and European embassies, consulates, vice-consulates and trading posts. A dragoman had to have a knowledge of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and European languages.
Amédée Jaubert (left) was Napoleon's "favourite orientalist adviser and dragoman". He accompanied the Persian envoy Mirza Mohammad-Reza Qazvini at Finckenstein Palace to meet with Napoleon on 27 April 1807 for the Treaty of Finckenstein. Detail of a painting by François Mulard.
Plate from The Crescent and the Cross by Elliot Warburton entitled "Encampment at Baalbec, lady and dragoman in foreground."
Dragoman Joseph Shaar. Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, 1891
Letter issued by Sultan Ahmed III assigning Nicola Danal Spiro as dragoman to Thomas Funck, Swedish envoyée to the Ottoman court.
