Jules Bloch

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Jules Bloch (born May 1, 1880 in Paris , † November 29, 1953 in Sèvres ) was a French Indologist and linguist.

Bloch studied at the Ecole des langues orientales with Sylvain Lévi and Antoine Meillet with a diploma in 1905 and at the École pratique des hautes études . He received his doctorate in Paris in 1914 and was directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études from 1919 to 1951, professor at the École des langues orientales from 1921 to 1937 and professor of Sanskrit at the Collège de France from 1937 to 1941 and 1944 to 1951 .

He dealt with Indian languages ​​and comparative language studies within the Indo-European language family. He was married to Yvonne Blum-Bloch and the couple had four children.

Fonts

  • Castes et dialectes en tamoul. Mémoires de la Société de linguistique de Paris, Volume 16, 1910, pp. 1-30
  • La formation de la langue marath. Honoré Champion, Bibliothèque de l'École des hautes études. Sciences historiques et philologiques 215, Paris 1920, (dissertation 1914, but only published in full in 1920, received the Prix Volney)
  • La phrase nominal en Sanskrit. Librairie Honoré Champion, coll.Mémoires de la Société de linguistique, Volume XIV, Paris, 1909
  • Un manuel du scribe cachemirien au XVIIe siècle, le Lokaprakāça, attribué à Ksemendra. Paul Geuthner, Paris, 1914.
  • L'Indo-Aryen du Véda aux temps modern , Adrien Maisonneuve, Paris, 1934
    • English translation: Indo-Aryan, from the Vedas to modern times, Adrien Maisonneuve, Paris, 1965
  • Sylvain Lévi et la linguistique indienne: leçon inaugurale lue au Collège de France le 13 avril 1937 , Maisonneuve, Paris, 1937
  • Structure grammaticale des langues dravidiennes , Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient, Adrien Maisonneuve, Paris, 1946.
    • English translation: The Grammatical Structure of Dravidian Languages, Deccan College, Pune 1954
  • Les Inscriptions d'Asoka. traduites et commentées par Jules Bloch, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1950
  • Les Tsiganes. Presses universitaires de France, Que sais-je? 1953, new edition 1969 edited by François de Vaux de Foletier and Henriette David
  • Application de la cartographie à l'Histoire de l'Indo-Aryen. Edited by C. Caillat, P. Meile, in: Cahiers de la Société Asiatique, Volume XIII, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1963.
  • Colette Caillat (editor): Recueil d'articles de Jules Bloch, 1906–1955, E. de Boccard, Paris, 1985.

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personal data
SURNAME Bloch, Jules
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French indologist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1953
Place of death Sèvres