Jean-Paul Roux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean-Paul Roux

French historian and turkologist

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1925

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 29-Jun-2009

Profession: writer, teacher, historian, ethnologist, researcher, anthropologist, historian of religion

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jean-Paul Roux, PhD (5 January 1925 – 29 June 2009) was a French Turkologist and a specialist in Islamic culture. He was a graduate of the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, the École du Louvre, and the École Pratique des Hautes Études.
In 1966 he was awarded a doctorate in literature in Paris.
He was Director of Research at CNRS from 1957 to 1970, the Science Secretary for the Department of Oriental Languages and Civilizations from 1960 to 1966, and a teacher of Islamic art at the École du Louvre.
He was General Commissioner for the Islamic Arts at the Orangerie de Tuileries in 1971 and also at the Grand Palais in 1977.
Jean-Paul Roux's Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire (2003) has been described as an "admirable short introduction" by historian David Morgan.