Louis de La Vallée Poussin

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Louis de La Vallée-Poussin. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed May 3, 2019 (Russian).
personal data
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