[Y-Indology] Burnoufs

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On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:17:45PM -0000, Chr. Wedemeyer wrote:

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> > Does anyone know what - if any - was the familial relationship

> > between Emile and Eugene Burnouf, the 19th Century Sanskritists?

>

> They were, in fact, father and son. Emile was Burnouf père; and

> Eugène fils. Emile was more famous as a classicist than a

> Sanskritist, I believe.

 

Akira Yuyama presents Emile Burnouf as a cousin of Eugène. See

 

Yuyama, Akira: Eugène Burnouf : the background to his research

into the Lotus Sutra. - Tokyo : The International Research Inst.

for Advanced Buddhology Soka Univ., 2000, p. 48 seq.

(Bibliotheca Philologica et Philosophica Buddhica; vol. 3)

 

All the best

Peter Wyzlic

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"Chr. Wedemeyer" wrote:

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> Dear Paul,

>

> They were, in fact, father and son. Emile was Burnouf père; and Eugène

> fils. Emile was more famous as a classicist than a Sanskritist, I

> believe.

>

> Best,

>

> Christian Wedemeyer

> The University of Chicago

>

According to my sources, the famous Eugène Burnouf (1801-1852) was an

uncle of the less important Émile-Louis Burnouf (1821-1907), by

contemporaries called “le petit Burnouf”. Unfortunately I have no

information about the father of Émile-Louis. The family further includes

Eugène’s father, Jean-Louis Burnouf (1775-1844) who was a professor of

Latin and translated Chézy’s Yajñadattavadha from Sanskrit into Latin. A

sister of Eugène was married with the poet Léopold Delisle. Louis Leupol

who collaborated with Émile-Louis in Sanskrit studies, was the

nom-de-plume of François Leloup de Cheroy (1807-??) of Nancy.

 

Regards

Klaus

 

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