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See also:SILVESTRE DE SACY, See also:ANTOINE See also:ISAAC, See also:BARON (1758-1838) , See also:French orientalist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 21st of See also:September 1758. His See also:father was a Parisian See also:notary named Silvestre, and the additional name of de Sacy was taken by the younger son after a See also:fashion then See also:common with the Paris bourgeoisie. From the See also:age of seven years, when he lost his father, he was educated in the closest seclusion by his See also:mother. In 1781 he was appointed councillor in the tour See also:des monnaies, and was advanced in 1791 to be a See also:commissary-See also:general in the same See also:department. De Sacy had successively acquired all the Semitic See also:languages, and as a See also:civil servant he found See also:time to make himself a See also:great name as an orientalist. He began successfully to decipher the See also:Pahlavi See also:inscriptions of the See also:Sassanian See also:kings (1787-1791).1 In 1792 he. retired from the public service, and lived in See also:close seclusion in a cottage near Paris till in 1795 he became See also:professor of Arabic in the newly founded school of living Eastern languages. The See also:interval was in See also:part devoted to the study of the See also:religion of the See also:Druses, which was the subject of his last and unfinished See also:work, the Expose de la religion des Druzes (2 vols., 1838). Since the See also:death of Johann See also:Jakob See also:Reiske Arabic learning had been in a backward See also:state. In the Grammaire arabe (2 vols., 1st ed. 181o, 2nd ed. 1831) and the Chreslomathie arabe (3 vols., 18o6), together with its supplement, the Anthologie grammaticale (1829), De Sacy supplied admirable See also:text-books, and earned the gratitude of later Arabic students. In 18o6 he added the duties of See also:Persian professor to his old See also:chair, and from this time onwards his See also:life was one of increasing See also:honour and success, broken only by a brief See also:period of See also:retreat during the See also:Hundred Days. He was perpetual secretary of the See also:Academy of Inscriptions from 1832 onwards; in 1808 he had entered the See also:corps legislatif; he was made a baron in 1813; and in 1832, when quite an old See also:man, be became a peer of See also:France and was See also:regular in the duties of the chamber. In 1815 he became See also:rector of the university of Paris, and after the second restoration he was active on the See also:commission of public instruction. With See also:Abel See also:Remusat he was See also:joint founder of the Societe asiatique, and was inspector of See also:oriental types at the royal See also:printing See also:press. De Sacy died on the 21st of See also:February 1838. Among his other See also:works are his edition of Hariri (1822, 2nd edition by See also:Reinaud, 1847, 1855), with a selected Arabic commentary, and of the Alfiya (1833), and his Calila et Dimna (1816),—the Arabic version of that famous collection of Buddhist See also:animal tales which has been in various forms one of the most popular books of the See also:world. A version of Abd-Allatif, Relation arabe sur l'Egypte, and essays on the See also:history of the See also:law of See also:property in See also:Egypt since the Arab See also:conquest (1805-1818). To biblical See also:criticism he contributed a memoir on the Samaritan Arabic of the See also:Pentateuch (Mein. Acad. des Inscr. vol. xlix.), and See also:editions of the Arabic and See also:Syriac New Testaments for the See also:British and See also:Foreign See also:Bible Society. Of the brilliant teachers who went out from his lecture-See also:room may be mentioned Professor Heinrich Leberecht See also:Fleischer (18o1-1888), who contributed elaborate notes and corrections to the Grammaire arabe (Kleine?? Schriften, vol. i., 1885). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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