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French indologist and translator
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Male
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Birth:
4 August 1788(Paris, Île-de-France, France)
Death:
11 August 1854(Nogent-sur-Marne, canton of Nogent-sur-Marne, arrondissement of Nogent-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Alexandre Langlois (4 August 1788, in Paris – 11 August 1854, in Nogent-sur-Marne) was a French Indologist and translator.
Hen taught classes at the Lycée Charlemagne, then worked as inspecteur at the Académie de Paris. He was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
Selected works
- Chefs-d'oeuvre du théatre indien (translated from Sanskrit into English by Horace Hayman Wilson, then translated from English into French by Langlois, 1828) – Masterpieces of the Indian theater.
- Harivansa ou Histoire de la famille de Hari (translation of Sanskrit, 1834–35) – Harivamsa, family history of Hari.
- Rig-Véda : ou livre des hymnes (translation of Sanskrit; 2nd edition, 1872) – Rigveda; book of hymns.
- The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans by Henry David Thoreau, an English translation from Langlois' Harivansa; edited by Arthur Christy (1972).