Émile Senart
Émile Charles Marie Senart (born March 26, 1847 in Reims , † February 21, 1928 in Paris ) was a French Indologist , Sanskritist , caste researcher and religious scholar .
Live and act
In addition to numerous epigraphic works, he has translated numerous Buddhist and Hindu works into French, including numerous Upanishads . One of his most famous works on the Indian caste system was translated into English by E. Denison Ross.
In 1882 he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres , president of the Société asiatique . From 1900 to 1915 he was also a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and from 1906 to 1914 a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . However, he resigned his membership in 1915 in protest against the appeal to the cultural world (1914). From 1905 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and from 1910 of the British Academy . From 1908 to 1928 and 1920 he was the founder of the Association française des amis de l'Orient , the society of French friends of the Orient in the Guimet Museum .
Works (selection)
- Les Inscriptions de Piyadasi. - Paris
- Les Inscriptions de Piyadasi / 1 / Les quatorze édits 1881
- Les Inscriptions de Piyadasi / 2 / L.édits détachés. L'auteur et la langue of the édits 1886
- Le Mahāvastu: Texts Sanscrit. Publié pour la première fois et accompagné d'introductions et d'un commentaire par E. Senart. - Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1882–1897
- Volume 1 1882
- Volume 2 1890
- Volume 3 1897
- Les castes dans l'Inde, les faits et le système - Paris, 1896 ( Caste in India . Translated by E. Denison Ross . London 1930)
- Text of Inscriptions discovered at the Niya Site 1901 / Transcr. and edited by AM Boyer , EJ Rapson, and E. Senart. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920 (Kharosthi Inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan; 1)
- Text of Inscriptions discovered at the Niya, Endere, and Lou-lan Sites 1906-7 / Auguste M. Boyer ; Edward James Rapson ; Émile Charles Marie Senart. - Oxford, 1927
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hartkopf, Werner. 1992. The Berlin Academy of Sciences: Its members and prize winners 1700-1990. Berlin: Academic Publishing House. P. 387
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 225.
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 29, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Senart, Émile |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Senart, Émile Charles Marie (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Indologist, Sanskritist, caste researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reims |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1928 |
| Place of death | Paris |