George Cœdès

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George Cœdès
George Cœdès
Born(1886-08-10)August 10, 1886
Paris, France
DiedOctober 2, 1969(1969-10-02) (aged 83)
NationalityFrench
SpouseNeang Yao (m. 1935)
Academic background
EducationÉcole pratique des hautes études (1905)
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian, archeologist
Sub-disciplineIndianized kingdoms of ancient Southeast Asia
InstitutionsNational Library of Thailand (1918-1929)
École française d'Extrême-Orient (1929-1946)
Notable worksCœdès transliteration of Thai
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George Cœdès (French: [ʒɔʁʒ sedɛs]; 10 August 1886 – 2 October 1969) was a French scholar of southeast Asian archaeology and history.

Biography

Cœdès was born in

Léon Coignet
. His father Hippolyte worked as a banker.

Cœdès became director of the

L'École française d'Extrême-Orient, where he remained until 1946. Thereafter he lived in Paris
until he died in 1969.

In 1935 he married Neang Yao.

He was also an editor of the Journal of the Siam Society during the 1920s.

He wrote two texts in the field, The Indianized States of Southeast Asia (1968, 1975) (first published in 1948 as Les états hindouisés d'Indochine et d'Indonésie) and The Making of South East Asia (1966), as well as innumerable articles, in which he developed the concept of the

Khmer
.

George Cœdès is credited with rediscovering the former kingdom of Srivijaya, centred on the modern-day Indonesian city of Palembang, but with influence extending from Sumatra through to the Malay Peninsula and Java.[4]

However, due to focusing on the history of lower Southeast Asia, Cœdès was criticized by another historian Tatsuo Hoshino as having underestimated the importance of northern Indochina, Yunnan, and the central Mekong Valley.[5]: 235 

Decorations

Cœdès received the following decorations:

Works

  • Textes d'auteurs grecs et latins relatifs à l'Extrême-Orient depuis le IVe siècle av. J.-C. jusqu'au XIVe siècle, 1910
  • Études cambodgiennes, 1911–1956
  • Le Royaume de Çrīvijaya, 1918
  • "Some Problems in the Ancient History of the Hinduized States of South-East Asia", Journal of Southeast Asian History, Vol.5, No.2, pp. 1–14
  • "À propos de l'origine des chiffres arabes", Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, Vol.6, No.2, pp. 323–328
  • "La Stèle de Ta-Prohm", Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient (BEFEO), Hanoi, VI, 1906, pp. 44–81
  • "The Origins of the Sukhodaya Dynasty", Journal of the Siam Society, Vol. 14.1, 1921
  • Listes generales des inscriptions et des monuments du Champa et du Cambodge, Hanoi, Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, 1923
  • The Vajiranana National Library of Siam, Bangkok, Council of the National Library, 1924
  • Documents sur l'histoire politique et religieuse du Laos occidental, 1925
  • "Une exposition de sculptures Khmères et Siamoises au Musée Cernuschi", Artibus Asiae, Vol.1, No.3 (1926), pp. 190–202
  • "À propos de la chute du royaume de Çrīvijaya". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië, Deel 83, 2de/3de Afl. (1927), pp. 459–472
  • "The excavations at Pong Tuk and their importance for the ancient history of Siam"[permanent dead link], Journal of the Siam Society, Vol.21, part 3, Mar. 1928, pp. 195–209
  • "Études cambodgiennes: XXXI. Nouvelles notes sur tcheou ta-kouan", Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient (BEFEO), II, pp. 148–151
  • "Les inscriptions malaises de Çrīvijaya". Bulletin de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 30 (1930), pp. 29–80.
  • "Pa-sseu-wei", T'oung Pao, Second Series, Vol. 30, No. 3/5 (1933), pp. 224–230
  • Un grand roi du Cambodge: Jayavarman VII, Phnom Penh, Editions de la Bibliothèque Royale, 1935
  • "L'origine du cycle des douze animaux au Cambodge", T'oung Pao, Second Series, Vol.31, Livr.3/5 (1935), pp. 315–329
  • Inscriptions du Cambodge, Hanoi, Imp. d'Extreme-Orient, 1937–1966
  • Pour mieux comprendre Angkor, 1943
  • Les stèles de Sdok Kok Thom, Phnom Sandak et Prah Vihar, 1943–1946
  • Histoire ancienne des États hindouisés d'Extrême-Orient, Hanoi, Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, 1944
  • "Fouilles en Cochinchine: Le Site de Go Oc Eo, Ancien Port du Royaume de Fou-nan", Artibus Asiae, Vol.10, No.3 (1947), pp. 193–199
  • Les états hindouisés d'Indochine et d'Indonésie, 1948
  • "Un yantra recemment decouvert a Angkor", Journal asiatique, Année 1952, p. [465]–477.
  • "Une Roue de la Loi avec inscription en Pāli provenant du Site de P'ră Păthŏm", Artibus Asiae, Vol.19, No.3/4 (1956), pp. 221–226
  • "The Traibhūmikathā Buddhist Cosmology and Treaty on Ethics", East and West, Vol.7, No.4 (January 1957), pp. 349–352
  • "Note sur une stele indienne d'epoque Pāla decouverte a Ayudhyā (Siam)", Artibus Asiae, Vol.22, No.1/2 (1959), pp. 9–14
  • "Les Môns de Dvāravatī", Artibus Asiae. Supplementum, Vol.23, pp. 112–116
  • Les Peuples de la péninsule indochinoise, 1962
  • Decouverte numismatique au Siam interessant le royaume de Dvaravati, Paris, Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1964.
  • L'avenir des etudes khmeres, Saigon, Imprimerie nouvelle d'Extrême-Orient, 1965
  • Angkor: an Introduction translated and edited by Emily Floyd Gardiner, photographs by George Bliss, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1966
  • The making of South East Asia, translated by H. M. Wright, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966
  • Catalogue des manuscrits en pali, laotien et siamois provenant de la Thailande, Copenhague, Bibliothèque Royale, 1966
  • The Indianized States of Southeast Asia, edited by Walter F. Vella, translated by Susan Brown Cowing, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 1968
  • —and Charles Archaimbault, Les trois mondes = Traibhumi Brah R'van Paris, École française d'Extrême-Orient 1973
  • Sriwijaya: history, religion & language of an early Malay polity. Collected studies by George Cœdès and Louis-Charles Damais, Kuala Lumpur, MBRAS, 1992
  • Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, Aczel, Amir D., 2015

Further reading

  • Higham, Charles (2001). The Civilization of Angkor. Phoenix. .
  • National Library of Australia. Asia's French Connection : Georges Cœdès and the Cœdès Collection Archived 2011-10-21 at the Wayback Machine

See also

References

  1. ^ Cœdès family archives
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  4. ^ Grant Evans (2014). "The Ai-Lao and Nan Chao/Tali Kingdom: A Re-orientation" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  5. ^ The Royal Gazette, Vol. 46, Page 3425. 29 December, B.E 2472 (C.E. 1929). Retrieved on 20 November 2008.