Henri Ternaux-Compans

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Henri Ternaux-Compans (born in Paris in 1807; died there in December 1864) was a French historian.

Biography

After finishing his studies in Paris, he entered the diplomatic service and was secretary of the embassies at Madrid and Lisbon, and chargé d'affaires in Brazil, but resigned, and devoted several years to travel through Spain and South America, doing research in the state libraries. Toward the close of Louis Philippe's reign he was elected a deputy, but he soon returned to his studies.

Works

Ternaux-Compans collected and published a valuable series of works concerning the discovery and early history of South America. They include:

Bibliothèque Americaine, ou catalogue des ouvrages relatifs à l'Amérique depuis sa découverte en 1493, jusqu'en l'an 1700 (Paris, 1836)
Voyages, relations et mémoires originaux pour servir a l'histoire de la découverte de l'Amérique (10 vols., 1836-'8; 2d series, 10 vols., 1839–40)
Archives des voyages, ou collection d'anciennes relations inédites (2 vols., 1840–41)
Recueil de documents et mémoires originaux sur l'histoire des possessions Espagnoles dans l'Amérique à diverses époques de la conquête (1840)
Essai sur la théogonie Mexicaine (1840)
Essai sur l'ancien Cundinamarca (1862)
Notice historique sur la Guyane Française (1863)
Histoire du Mexique par Don Alvaro Tezozomac (2 vols., 1849)

Notes

References

Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Ternaux, Henry". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton

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Name	Ternaux-Compans, Henri
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Short description	French historian
Date of birth	1807
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Date of death	1864
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