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| Date transcribed | 2011-01-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Burnouf | | | First Name(s) | Eugene | | | Year of Birth | 1801 | | | Year of Death | 1852 | | | Entry | Born at Paris, Aug. 12, 1801 : son of Jean Louis Burnouf, grammarian : a pupil of Chezy : studied at the College of Louis-le-Grand : scholar : gave up his profession, the law, and took to Oriental languages : gave instruction in Sanskrit, 1824 : published in 1826, with Lassen of Bonn, the Essai sur le Pali : appointed Professor of General and Comparative Grammar in the Normal School at Paris, 1829-33 : and of Indian Languages and Literature at theColiege de France, 1832 : a founder of the Societe Asiatique in Paris : published, 1833, a commentary on the Yacna, dealing with the language, literature, and history of the Parsis : brought out his Etudes sur la langue et les textes Zendes, 1840-50 : the earliest to study Zend MSS. at first hand, giving a great impulse to the study of that language, and assistance in the decipherment of the old Persian cuneiform inscriptions : wrote 3 vols, of his work on the text and translation of the Bhagavat Purana, 1840-4 : and began an introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism, 1844 : translated a Sanskrit work on Le Lotus de la Bonne Loi, 1852, and the Vendidad Sade, 1829 : and wrote on the Buddhist inscriptions on pillars and rocks : left other Zend works and a Pali grammar and dictionary nearly complete : Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions : Member of the Institute of France since 1832 : a great European Orientalist : died May 28, 1852. |
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