Charles Adrien Casimir Barbier de Meynard (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl adʁijɛ̃ kazimiʁ baʁbje də menaʁ]; 6 February 1826 – 31 March 1908), born at sea on a ship from Constantinople to Marseille, was a nineteenth-century French historian and orientalist.
Among his other works, he completed Julius von Mohl's translation of Ferdowsi's Shahnama, with the French title Livre des Rois.
Barbier de Meynard also translated numerous works by al-Masudi, ibn Khordadbeh and other Caliphate-era historians.
He studied the history of Zoroastrianism, editing the Dictionnaire Géographique de la Perse, and wrote about the then-nascent Baháʼí Faith.
[1] Barbier de Meynard was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1895.