Madeleine Biardeau
Madeleine Biardeau (16 May 1922 Niort - 1 February 2010 Cherveux) was an Indologist from France.[1]
Early life
Madeleine Biardeau was born into a middle-class family of small entrepreneurs. She was educated at the Ecole normale supérieure in Sèvres, where she studied philosophy. Here, she was attracted to the Eastern spirituality and started learning Sanskrit in order to study Hindu philosophy.[1]
Indology
Curious about India, Biardeau joined the
She studied the philosophy contained in the
The Hindu epics constituted a main area of Biardeau's scholarship. She translated the Ramayana of Valmiki into French (1991), in collaboration with two other scholars: Marie-Claude Porcher and Philippe Benoit. Her last major work comprised the two edited volumes of the Mahabharata published in 2002.[1]
Biardeau retired to Cherveux in 2008, and died there in 2010.[citation needed]
Bibliography
- Histoires de poteaux : Variations védiques autour de la Déesse hindoue, École Française d'Extrême Orient, 2005.
- Stories about Posts: Vedic Variations around the Hindu Goddess (1994). ISBN 978-0-226-04595-5. Translated by Alf Hiltebeitel.
- Stories about Posts: Vedic Variations around the Hindu Goddess (1994).
- L'hindouisme, anthropologie d'une civilisation, Flammarion, 1995.
- Hinduism: The Anthropology of a Civilization (1994). ISBN 978-0-19-563389-4. Translated by Richard Nice.
- Hinduism: The Anthropology of a Civilization (1994).
- Le Mahabharata, Le Seuil, 2002. A two-edition French translation of the Mahabharata.
References
- ^ a b c d Roland Lardinois (27 February 2010). "Influential Indologist". The Hindu. Chennai, India. Retrieved 2010-03-01.
External links
- Obituary in Indologica Volume XXXVII (2011)