- Eugène Burnouf
Infobox Person
name = Eugène Burnouf
birth_date = birth date and age|1801|04|08
birth_place = Paris,France
death_date = death date and age|1852|05|28|1801|04|08
occupation =Orientalist Eugène Burnouf (
April 8 ,1801 –May 28 ,1852 ) was a Frenchorientalist .He was born in Paris. His father, Professor
Jean Louis Burnouf (1775-1844), was a classical scholar of high reputation, and the author, among other works, of an excellent translation of Tacitus (6 vols., 1827-1833). Eugène Burnouf published in 1826 an "Essai sur lePali ...", written in collaboration withChristian Lassen ; and in the following year "Observations grammaticales sur quelques passages de l'essai sur le Pali".The next great work he undertook was the deciphering of the
Avesta manuscripts brought to France by Anquetil-Duperron. By his research a knowledge of theAvestan language was first brought into the scientific world of Europe. He caused the "Vendidad Sade", to belithograph ed with the utmost care from the manuscript in theBibliothèque Nationale , and published it in folio parts, 1829-1843.From 1833 to 1835 he published his "Commentaire sur le Yaçna, l'un des livres liturgiques des Parses"; he also published the
Sanskrit text and French translation of the "Bhagavata Purana ou histoire poétique de Krichna" in three folio volumes (1840-1847). His last works were "Introduction à l'histoire du Bouddhisme indien" (1844), and a translation of "Le lotus de la bonne loi" ("TheLotus Sutra ", 1852). He had been for twenty years a member of theAcademie des Inscriptions and professor of Sanskrit in theCollège de France .See a notice of Burnouf's works by Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire, prefixed to the second edition (1876) of the "Introd. à l'histoire du Bouddhisme indien"; also Naudet, "Notice historique sur MM. Burnouf, père et fils", in "Mém. de l'Acad. des Inscriptions", xx. A list of his valuable contributions to the "Journal asiatique" and of his manuscript writings, is given in the appendix to the "Choix de lettres d'Eugène Burnouf" (1891).
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