Antoine-Léonard de Chézy
Antoine-Léonard de Chézy (15 January 1773 – 31 August 1832) was a French orientalist and one of the first European scholars of Sanskrit.
Biography
He was born at
national library.[1] In about 1803, he began studying Sanskrit, and although he possessed no grammar or dictionary, he succeeded in acquiring sufficient knowledge of the language to be able to compose poetry in it.[2]
In Paris sometime between 1800 and 1805,
Friedrich Schlegel's wife Dorothea introduced him to the Wilhelmine Christiane von Klencke
, called Hermina or Hermine, who, extremely unusually for the time, was a very young divorcée who had come to Paris to be a correspondent for German newspapers. In 1805 they married and Helmina subsequently gave birth to two sons: the author Wilhelm Theodor von Chézy (1806–1865) and Max von Chézy (1808–1846), who became a painter. However, the marriage was ultimately not a success, and the couple parted, although did not divorce, in 1810. De Chézy continued to make annual payments for her support until his death.
He was the first professor of Sanskrit appointed in the Collège de France (1815),[2] where his pupils included Alexandre Langlois, Auguste-Louis-Armand Loiseleur-Deslongchamps and especially Eugène Burnouf, who would become his successor at the Collège on his death in 1832. [3]
He was a chevalier of the
Académie des Inscriptions
. Among his works were:
- Medjnoun et Leïla (1807), from the Persian.
- Yadjnadatta-badha ou la mort d'Yadjnadatta (1814).
- La Reconnaissance de Sacountala (1830), from the Sanskrit.
- Anthologie érotique d'Amarou (1831), published under the pseudonym A. L. Apudy.[2]
See also
References
- ^ Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples by Alexander von Humboldt, J. Ryan Poynter, Giorleny D Altamirano Rayo, Tobias Kraft
- ^ Silvestre de Sacy.
- ^ Hindu Myth, Hindu History, Religion, Art, and Politics by Heinrich von Stietencron
- Arthur F. J. Remy (1913). . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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