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See also:DARMESTETER, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1849-1894) , See also:French author and antiquarian, was See also:born of Jewish parents on the 28th of See also:March 1849 at See also:Chateau See also:Salins, in See also:Alsace. The See also:family name had originated in their earlier See also:home of See also:Darmstadt. He was educated in See also:Paris, where, under the guidance of See also:Michel See also:Breal and See also:Abel Bergaigne, he imbibed a love for See also:Oriental studies, to which for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he entirely devoted himself. He was a See also:man of vast intellectual range. In 1875 he published a thesis on the See also:mythology of the Zend Avesta, and in 1877 became teacher of Zend at the Ecole See also:des Hautes Etudes. He followed up his researches with his Etudes iraniennes (1883), and ten years later published a See also:complete See also:translation of the Zend Avesta, with See also:historical and philological commentary (3 vols., 1892-1893), in the Annales du See also:music. See also:Guimet. He also edited the Zend Avesta for Max See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller's Sacred Books of the See also:East. Darmesteter regarded the extant texts as far more See also:recent than was commonly believed, placing the earliest in the 1st See also:century B.C., and the bulk in the 3rd century A.D. In 1885 he was appointed See also:professor in the See also:College de See also:France, and was sent to See also:India in 1886 on a See also:mission to collect the popular songs of the Afghans, a translation of which, with a valuable See also:essay on the Afghan See also:language and literature, he published on his return. His impressions of See also:English dominion in India
were conveyed in Lettres sur l'Inde (1888). See also:England interested him deeply; and his See also:attachment to the gifted English writer, A. See also:Mary F. See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson, whom he shortly afterwards married (and who in 190I became the wife of Professor E. See also:Duclaux, director of the See also:Pasteur See also:Institute at Paris), led him to translate her poems into French in 1888. Two years after his See also:death a collection of excellent essays on English subjects was published in English. He also wrote Le See also:Mandi depuis See also:les origins de l'See also:Islam jusqu'd nos jours (1885) ; Les Origines de la poesie persane (1888); Prophetes d'See also:Israel (1892), and other books on topics connected with the east, and from 1883 onwards See also:drew up the See also:annual reports of the Societe Asiatique. 'He had just become connected with the Revue de Paris, when his delicate constitution succumbed to a slight attack of illness on the lgth of See also:October 1894.
His See also:elder See also:brother, ARSENE DARMESTETER (1846-1888), was a distinguished philologist and man of letters. He studied under Gaston Paris at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, and became professor of Old French language and literature at the See also:Sorbonne. His See also:Life of Words appeared in English in 1888. He also collaborated with Adolphe Hatzfeld in a Dictionnaire See also:general de la langue francaise (2 vols., 1895-1900). Among his most important See also:work was the elucidation of Old French by means of the many glosses in the See also:medieval writings of See also:Rashi and other French See also:Jews. His scattered papers on See also:romance and Jewish See also:philology were collected by James Darmesteter as Arsene Darmesteter, reliques scientifiques (2 vols., 1890). His valuable Cours de grammaire historique de In langue francaise was edited after his death by E. Muret and L. Sudre (1891-1895; English edition, 1902).
There is an eloge of James Darmesteter in the See also:Journal asiatique (1894, vol. iv. pp. 519-534), and a See also:notice by See also:Henri Cordier, with a See also:list of his writings, in The Royal See also:Asiatic Society's Journal (See also:January 1895) ; see also Gaston Paris, " James Darmesteter," in Penseurs et pates (1896), pp. 1-61).
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