Jean Chardin, known as Sir John Chardin in England, was a French jeweller, traveller and writer, who emigrated to England in 1681, at the age of 37. His ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Safavid Iran and the Near East in general.
- Occupation
- traveler, writer, merchant
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- November 16, 1643, November 25, 1643
- Died
- January 5, 1713, December 25, 1713, January 26, 1713
