Pierre Amédée Jaubert

Pierre Amédée Emilien Probe Jaubert (3 June 1779 – 28 January 1847) was a French diplomat, academic, orientalist, translator, politician, and traveler.

[1] Born in Aix-en-Provence, Jaubert was one of the most distinguished pupils of Silvestre de Sacy, whose funeral Discours he gave in 1838.

In 1805, he was dispatched to Qajar Persia in the "Jaubert Mission",[2] to arrange an alliance with Shah Fat′h Ali, but on the way there he was seized and imprisoned in a dry cistern for four months by the Pasha of Doğubeyazıt.

Jaubert was allowed to go after the pasha died; he successfully accomplished his mission, and rejoined Napoleon in the Duchy of Warsaw (1807).

The Bourbon Restoration ended his diplomatic career, but in 1818 he undertook a journey with government aid to Tibet, from whence he succeeded in introducing into France 400 Kashmir goats.

Amédée Jaubert accompanied the Persian Envoy Mirza Mohammad-Reza Qazvini at Finckenstein Palace 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.