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Carra De Vaux, Bernard, Baron, : JOSEPH SALVADOR ET JAMES DARMESTETER ..

Paris, Durlacher,, 1900

Softcover, 26 pages, 12mo. In French. James Darmesteter (28 March 1849 – 19 October 1894) was a “French author, orientalist, and antiquarian. He was born of Jewish parents at Château Salins, in Alsace…. He was educated in Paris, where, under the guidance of Michel Bréal and Abel Bergaigne, he imbibed a love for Oriental studies, to which for a time he entirely devoted himself. In 1875 he published a thesis on the mythology of the Avesta, and in 1877 became teacher of Persian language at the École des Hautes Études. He continued his research with his Études iraniennes (1883) , and ten years later published a complete translation of the Avesta and associated Zend (lit. ‘commentary’) , with historical and philological commentary of his own (Zend Avesta, 3 vols. , 1892-1893) in the Annales du Musée Guimet. He also edited the Avesta for Max Müller's Sacred Books of the East series (vols. 4 and 23) …. In 1885 he was appointed professor in the Collège de France, and was sent to India in 1886 on a mission to collect the popular songs of the Afghans, a translation of which, with a valuable essay on the Afghan language and literature, he published on his return. His impressions of English dominion in India were conveyed in Lettres sur l'Inde (1888) . England interested him deeply; and his attachment to the gifted English writer, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, whom he shortly afterwards married (and who in 1901 became the wife of Professor E. Duclaux, director of the Pasteur Institute at Paris) , led him to translate her poems into French in 1888. Two years after his death a collection of excellent essays on English subjects was published in English. He also wrote Le Mahdi depuis les origines de l'Islam jusqu'a nos jours (1885) ; Les Origines de la poesie persane (1888) ; Prophètes d'Israel (1892) , and other books on topics connected with the East, and from 1883 onwards drew up the annual reports of the Société Asiatique” (Wikipedia, 2010) . SUBJECT(S) : Named Person: Salvador, Joseph. Darmesteter, James. Reprinted from: Revue des etudes juives, 1900. Yellow brown pages. Stained cover and pages. Chippings to edges of book. Otherwise, good condition. (mx-32-9)

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