Frédéric Soret

Frédéric Soret (12 May 1795 in Saint Petersburg – 18 December 1865 at Plainpalais in Geneva) was a Swiss private scholar in physics and Oriental numismatics.

Frédéric Soret was born in Saint Petersburg, where his father served as artist at the imperial court.

He took care for the education of the later Grand Duke Carl Alexander, a son of the Maria Pavlovna and heir apparent.

The initial interest might have aroused by a coin hoard of the 9th century containing North-African dirhams of the caliphate.

Due to his old ties to Saxe-Weimar and Eisenach he became a close friend to Johann Gustav Stickel, another founding father of Islamic numismatics.