Wiet

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Wiet is the name of a family of Scottish origin that gave a dynasty of young languages, drogmans, consuls and diplomats. Its members served mainly France.

His services to French diplomacy are, along with those of the Fornetti, among the longest in the history of French diplomacy in the East, almost four centuries.

Wiet family

Members of the Wiet family who have held consular or diplomatic duties
Mr Wiet, born in Great Britain, Consul General in Syria and Palestine at the
Henry Wiet (1676-1728), son of the previous, consul in Cyprus, arrived in France with his father, accompanying Jacques II Stuart and his court, welcomed in France by Louis XIV. In 1686 he was chosen by the King, along with five other children, to study at the language school in Constantinople. He was naturalized French.
Joseph François Wiet (1717-1793), son of the previous, Drogman and Chancellor in Alexandria, Egypt
Joseph Marie Etienne Wiet (1773-1834), son of the previous, drogman in Andrinople, Salonique and Aleppo
Émile Joseph Marie Wiet (1818-1881); son of the previous, consul in Mogador, Bahia, Cap-Haitien, Port-au-Prince, Tunis, Mossoul, Janina, Scutari, Salonique, Corfu, Tripoli de Barbarie, Palermo
Edouard Joseph Théophane Wiet (1822-1863) son of Joseph Marie Etienne Wiet, young of languages, drogman, consul at Salonique, Erzeroum, Baghdad, Bosnia, at Scutari, knight of the Legion of Honour
Gaston Émile Henry Édouard Sextius Wiet (1846-1900), son of Émile Joseph Marie Wiet, drogman and consul in Mosul, Galatz, knight of the Legion of Honour
Émile Joseph Emmanuel Wiet (1855-1912), son of Émile Joseph Marie Wiet, consul at Las Palmas, knight of the Legion of Honour
Louis Wiet (?-1873), a young language student in 1873
Ferdinand Lionel Marie Joseph Wiet (1872-1943), son of Émile Joseph Marie Wiet, drogman, consul and then minister plenipotentiary in Aleppo, Marache, Mosul, Tripoli, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Beirut, Baghdad, Trebizonde, officer of the Legion of Honour
François Wiet, Consul General and then Minister Plenipotentiary in Port-au-Prince
Jean Jacques André Wiet (born 1952), Consul General in Jeddah, Marrakech, Algiers, Officer of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Legion of Honour

Other Wiet family members
Gaston Louis Marie Joseph Wiet (1887-1971), son of Maxime Emmanuel Marie Joseph Wiet and grandson of Émile Joseph Marie Wiet, orientalist, director of the Arab Art Museum in Cairo, resistant
Lionel Alphonse Augustin Joseph Marie Wiet (1899-1962), son of Ferdinand Lionel Marie Joseph Wiet, director of the Théâtre de l'Avenue in Paris under the occupation, presented as "a worldly crook" as well as a "false marquis and true high-flight trafficker. »

Sources
Marie de Testa & Antoine Gautier, Drogmans and European diplomats at the Ottoman Gate, ISIS editions, Istanbul, 2003, pp. 190-195.
Henri Cordier, Mixtures of Oriental History and Geography, Volume 4, Jean Maiso