Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon

{{Short description|French historian and librarian (1730–1811)}}

Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon (born in Paris, 7 April 1730; died 1811) was a French historian and librarian.

He first worked at the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris, the city of Paris historical library. In 1766 he published a history of trade and seafaring in Ptolemaic Egypt, a work that was commended by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres;[https://books.google.com/books?id=mTBEAAAAcAAJ&dq=%22Histoire+du+commerce+et+de+la+navigation+des+%C3%89gyptiens%22+%22Belles-Lettres%22&pg=PR1 Histoire du commerce et de la navigation des Egyptiens] by Hubert Pascal Ameilhon he became a member of the academy in 1766.[http://data.bnf.fr/12497886/hubert-pascal_ameilhon/ Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon (1730-1811)] data.bnf.fr He completed the multi-volume Histoire du Bas-Empire, a history of the Later Roman Empire and early medieval Europe, left unfinished by Charles Le Beau.[http://www.idref.fr/030816548 Le Beau, Charles (1701-1778)] IdRef (bibliography) Taking up the work of Gabriel de La Porte du Theil he produced the first published translation (into Latin and French) of the Greek inscription on the Rosetta Stone: this was published in 1803.[https://books.google.com/books?id=O2muBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Hubert-Pascal+Ameilhon%22+Theil&pg=PA251 The Esoteric Codex: Ancient Egyptian Texts I] by Mark Rogers

He was responsible for saving up to 800,000 printed books threatened with destruction in the early years of the French Revolution.[https://books.google.com/books?id=3EN15UlE-WoC&dq=%22Ameilhon%22+800%2C000&pg=PA118 Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology, Volume 1] by Joseph Thomas Many of these found a home at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, of which he became director in 1800 (perpetual administrator in 1804).