| Authorised form of name | Timone; Emanuele (1665 - 1741) |
| Other forms of name | Emmanuele |
| Other forms of surname | Timoni |
| Dates | 1665 - 1741 |
| Place of birth | Italy? |
| Date of birth | 1665 |
| Date of death | 1741 |
| Occupation | Diplomat; Physician |
| Activity | Education:
Padua; MD; Incorporated at Oxford
Career:
Travelled throughout the Ottoman Empire; practised in Constantinople; after taking part in the negotiations for the Peace of Carlowitz (1699), he travelled to England with the English representative, William, Lord Paget; returned to Constantinople (1703); he described the practice of inoculation against smallpox as practised in the Ottoman Empire in a letter to John Woodward (FRS 1693); committed suicide
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 30/11/1703 |
| Relationships | Son of the interpreter to the British Embassy to the Sublime Porte |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Hirsch; Biog Univ
References:
Raymond Phineas Stearns, 'Fellows of the Royal Society in North Africa and the Levant, 1662-1800' in NR 1954-55 vol 11 pp 75-90
Notes:
Hirsch and Biog Univ say he was Greek, but N&R article says he was born in Italy and gives date of death as c 1718 |
| Code | NA423 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| CLP/23ii/73 | Extract, from 'History of small pox by inoculation' by Dr [Emanuele] Timone | nd |
| CLP/14ii/6 | Paper, 'De Peste Constantinopoli grassante' [Treatise on the plague in Constantinople] by Emanuele Timone | 1714 |
| RBO/11/19 | Treatise of the plague of 1714 in Constantinople by Emanuel Timone | 1720 |
| CLP/23ii/72 | Paper, 'Clausula excerpta ex historia variolarum quae per incisionem excitantur' by [Emanuele] Timone | [1732] |