Paul Demiéville
Paul Demiéville | |
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Paris, France | |
Nationality | Swiss |
Citizenship | French (naturalized in 1931) |
Spouse | Helène Demiéville |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Buddhism, Chinese poetry |
Institutions | Collège de France |
Academic advisors | Édouard Chavannes, Sylvain Lévi |
Chinese name | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Dài Mìwēi |
Wade–Giles | Tai4 Mi4-wei1 |
Paul Demiéville (13 September 1894 – 23 March 1979) was a Swiss-French
Demiéville was one of the foremost sinologists of the first half of the 20th century, and was known for his wide-ranging contributions to Chinese and Buddhist scholarship. His influence on Chinese scholarship in France was particularly profound, as he was the only major French sinologist to survive World War II.
Demiéville was one of the first sinologists to learn Japanese to augment their study of China: prior to the early 20th century, most scholars of China learned Manchu as their second scholarly language, but Demiéville's study of Japanese instead has been followed by nearly every major sinologist since his day.
Early life
Paul Demiéville was born on 13 September 1894 in
Following his completion of secondary school, Demiéville spent time studying in
Career
After completing his Diplômé in 1919, Demiéville was named a resident of the
Demiéville returned to France in 1930 and was made a French citizen by decree the following year, when he was named Professor of Chinese at the École des Langues Orientales, where he stayed throughout
From 1945 to 1975, Demiéville served as the French co-editor of the prominent sinology journal T'oung Pao, which was traditionally co-edited by one sinologist from France and another from the Netherlands.
Selected works
- (in French) ––– (1924). "Les Versions chinoises du Milindapanha" ("Chinese Versions of the Milinda Panha"), Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, no. XXIV, pp. 1–258.
- (in French) ––– (1929). "Sur l'authenticité du Ta tch'eng k'i sin louen" ("On the Authenticity of the Da cheng qi xin lun 大乘起新論"), Bulletin de la Maison Franco-Japonaise, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1–78.
- ––– (1935). "Iconography and History", in The Twin Pagodas of Zayton: A Study of Later Buddhist Sculpture in China, Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, vol. 2. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-Yenching Institute, pp. 27–95.
- (in French) ––– (1951). "À propos du Concile de Vaiśāli" ("Regarding the Council of Vaiśāli"). T'oung Pao 40. Leiden: E.J. Brill, pp. 239–296.
- (in French) ––– (1952). Le Concile de Lhasa: Une controverse sur la quiétisme entre bouddhistes de l'inde et de le Chine au VIIIème siècle (The Council of Lhasa: A controversy on quietism between Buddhists of India and China in the 8th century). Paris: Bibliothèque de l'Institut des Hautes Études chinoises.
- (in French) ––– (1954). "La Yogācārabhūmi de Sangharaksa" ("The Yogācārabhūmi of Sangharaksa"). Bulletin du l'École française d'Extrême-Orient, no. XLIV, 2, pp. 339–436.
References
Citations
Sources
- Holzman, Donald (1979). "Paul Demiéville (1894–1979)". Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 99, no. 3, pp. 553–555.
- Macdonald, Alexander W. (1979). "Obituary – Paul Demiéville", Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 110–113.