Louis de La Vallée Poussin
Louis Étienne Joseph Marie de La Vallée Poussin (born January 1, 1869 in Liège ; † February 18, 1938 Brussels ) was a Belgian orientalist specializing in Sanskrit and Buddhism .
biography
Vallée-Poussin received his doctorate at the age of only 19 in his hometown of Liège in 1888 and a second time after studying Sanskrit, Pali and the Avesta language under Charles de Harlez (1832–1899) and Philippe Colinet in 1891 in Leuven . After continuing his studies at the Sorbonne with Victor Henri and Sylvain Lévi , he received the chair of Sanskrit in Leuven in 1891.
At the same time he continued his study of the Avesta and the Zorastrian scripts in Leiden with Hendrik Kern , where he also studied the Chinese and Tibetan languages. In 1893 he received the professorship for comparative grammar of Greek and Latin at the University of Ghent , which he held until his retirement in 1929. Since 1916 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
Works
- as translator
- Pancakrama . 1896
- as an author
- Nirvana , Dharma 1997 reprint, ISBN 2-86487-035-5
- La Morale bouddhique , Dharma 2001 reprint
- Documents d'Abhidharma. La controverse du temps, des dieux, les quatre, les trois vérités
- Vijnaptimatratasiddhi. La siddhi de Hiuantsang (Xuanzang)
- L'Inde aux temps des Mauryas et des Barbares, Grecs, Scythes, Parthes et Yue-Tchi , 1930 ( Histoire du monde )
- Dynasties et histoire de l'Inde depuis Kanishka jusqu'aux invasions musulmanes , 1935 ( Histoire du monde )
- Bouddhisme. Opinions sur l'histoire de la dogmatique , 1925
- Indo-européens et indo-Iranian. L'Inde jusque vers 300 avant J.-C. , 1936 ( Histoire du monde )
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis de La Vallée Poussin in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Louis de La Vallée-Poussin. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed May 3, 2019 (Russian).
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SURNAME | La Vallée-Poussin, Louis de |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | La Vallée Poussin, Louis Étienne Joseph Marie de (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian orientalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1869 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Liege |
DATE OF DEATH | February 18, 1938 |
Place of death | Brussels |