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Eugène Burnouf (
April 8,
1801–
May 28,
1852) was a
French orientalist.
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 le Pali ..., written in collaboration with
Christian 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 labours a knowledge of the
Avestan language was first brought into the scientific world of Europe. He caused the
Vendidad Sade, to be
lithographed with the utmost care from the manuscript in the
Bibliothèque 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 (
The Lotus Sutra, 1852). He had been for twenty years a member of the
Academie des Inscriptions and professor of Sanskrit in the
Collège 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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