Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy

Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy (born January 25, 1794 in Marseille , † September 2, 1878 ibid) was a French orientalist .

Life

At the Collège de France in Paris Garcin de Tassy learned oriental languages and became a student of the philologist Silvestre de Sacy . Later, at his suggestion (and Garcin de Tassy's wishes), the École spéciale des langues orientales was founded in Paris and Gracin de Tassy was given a chair for Indian language there.

When Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord died in 1838, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres chose Garcin de Tassy as its successor to its member. As such, he was instrumental in founding the Société asiatique and later also one of its directors. Since 1858 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1876 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . He was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg since 1856.

In addition to his own scientific work, Garcin de Tassy also made a name for himself as a translator from Arabic . Later, research into the Hindustan language became a major focus and was soon regarded as a luminary .

At the age of 84, Garcin de Tassy starred in his native city on September 2, 1878, and found his final resting place there.

Works (selection)

Allégories. Récits poétiques et chants populaires . Lerroux, Paris 1877.
Les aventures de Kamrup . Paris 1834 (translation).
Chrestomathie hindie et hindouie . Paris 1849.
Cours d'hindoustani . Paris 1870.
La doctrine de l'amour . Paris 1859 (translation from the Hindustani).
Histoire de la littérature hindouie e hindoustanie 2nd edition Dupont, Paris 1871 (3 vols.)
L'islamisme d'aprés le Coran. Sciences of religion . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1978, ISBN 3-7648-0340-1 (Rep. D. Paris 1874 edition).
La langue et la littérature hindoustanies 1850-69 . 2nd edition Paris 1874.
Mémoires sur les particularités de la religion musulmane dans l'Inde . Paris 1832.
Oeuvre de Wali . Paris 1834 (translation of individual works by the poet Wali).
La poésie philosophique et religieuse chez les Persans d'après le Mantic Uttar, ou le langue des oiseaux de Farid-Uddin Attar . 4th ed. Dupont, Paris 1864 (3 vols.).
Rhétorique et prosodie des langues de l'Orient musulman . 2nd edition Paris 1873.
Rudiments de la langue hindouie . Paris 1847.

literature

I. von Döllinger: The British Empire in India. A review of life and works of Garcin de Tassy . In: The contemporay Review No. 35 (1879)
Sayida S. Hussain: Biographie et étude critique de ses servers . Institute francaise d'Indologie, Pondichéry 1962.
Garcin de Tassy. An exhibition . Calcutta, National Library 1978.

Web links

Literature by and about Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Members of the previous academies. Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 26, 2015 .
^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 14, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Garcin de Tassy, Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tassy, Joseph-Héliodore-Sagesse-Vertu Garcin de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 25, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marseille
DATE OF DEATH	September 2, 1878
Place of death	Marseille

[1] Members of the previous academies. Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 26, 2015 .

[2] Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 14, 2015 .