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See also:BURNOUF, See also:EUGENE (1801—1852) , See also:French orientalist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 8th of See also:April 18o1. His See also:father, Prof. See also:Jean See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Burnouf (1775—1844), was a , classical See also:scholar of high reputation, and the author, among other See also:works, of an excellent See also:translation of See also:Tacitus (6 vols., 1827—1833). Eugene Burnouf published in 1826 an Essai sur le Pdli ..., written in collaboration with See also:Christian See also:Lassen; and in the following See also:year Observations grammaticales sur quelques passages de l'essai sur le See also:Pali. The next See also:great See also:work he undertook was the deciphering of the Zend See also:manuscripts brought to See also:France by See also:Anquetil du See also:Perron. By his labours a knowledge of the Zend See also:language was first brought into the scientific See also:world of See also:Europe. He caused the Vendidad See also:Sade, See also:part of one of the books bearing the name of Zoroaster, to be lithographed with the utmost care from the Zend MS. in the Bibliotheque Nationale, and published it in See also:folio parts, 1829—1843. From 1833 to 1835 he published his Commentaire sur le Yacna, l'un See also:des livres liturgiques des Parses; he also published the See also:Sanskrit See also:text and French translation of the Bhdgavata Purdna ou histoire poetique de Krichna in three folio volumes (1840-1847). His last works were Introduction a l'histoire du Bouddhisme indien (1844), and a translation of Le See also:lotus de la bonne loi (1852). Burnouf died on the 28th of May 1852. He had been for twenty years a member of the Academie des See also:Inscriptions and See also:professor of Sanskrit in the See also:College de France.
See a See also:notice of Burnouf's works by See also:Barthelemy See also:Saint-Hilaire, prefixed to the second edition (1876) of the Introd. a l'histoire du Bouddhisme indien; also Naudet, " Notice historique sur M. M. Burnouf, Pere et fils," in See also:Mint. de l'Acad. des Inscriptions, xx. A See also:list of his valuable contributions to the See also:Journal asiatique, and ofhis MS. writings, is given in the appendix to the Choix de leitres d'Eugene Burnouf (1891).
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