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See also: born of Jewish parents on the 28th of See also: March 1849 at Chateau
See also: Salins, in See also: Alsace
.
The See also: family name had originated in their earlier home of See also: Darmstadt
.
He was educated in See also: Paris, where, under the guidance of Michel See also: Breal and See also: Abel Bergaigne, he imbibed a love for See also: Oriental studies, to which for a See also: time he entirely devoted himself
.
He was a See also: man of vast intellectual range
.
In 1875 he published a thesis on the See also: mythology of the Zend Avesta, and in 1877 became teacher of Zend at the Ecole See also: des Hautes Etudes
.
He followed up his researches with his Etudes iraniennes (1883), and ten years later published a See also: complete See also: translation of the Zend Avesta, with See also: historical and philological commentary (3 vols., 1892-1893), in the Annales du See also: music
.
See also: Guimet
.
He also edited the Zend Avesta for Max See also: Muller's Sacred Books of the
See also: East
.
See also: Darmesteter regarded the extant texts as far more See also: recent than was commonly believed, placing the earliest in the 1st century B.C., and the bulk in the 3rd century A.D
.
In 1885 he was appointed professor in the See also: College de See also: France, and was sent to See also: India in 1886 on a See also: 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 See also: English dominion in India
were conveyed in Lettres sur l'Inde (1888)
.
See also: England interested him deeply; and his See also: attachment to the gifted English writer, A
.
Mary F . See also: Robinson, whom he shortly afterwards married (and who in 190I became the wife of Professor E
.
See also: Duclaux, director of the See also: Pasteur Institute at Paris), led him to translate her poems into French in 1888
.
Two years after his See also: death a collection of excellent essays on English subjects was published in English
.
He also wrote Le See also: Mandi depuis See also: les origins de l'See also: Islam jusqu'd nos jours (1885) ; Les Origines de la poesie persane (1888); Prophetes d'Israel (1892), and other books on topics connected with the east, and from 1883 onwards See also: drew up the See also: annual reports of the Societe Asiatique
.
'He had just become connected with the Revue de Paris, when his delicate constitution succumbed to a slight attack of illness on the lgth of See also: October 1894
.
His elder See also: brother, ARSENE DARMESTETER (1846-1888), was a distinguished philologist and man of letters
.
He studied under Gaston Paris at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, and became professor of Old French language and literature at the See also: Sorbonne
.
His See also: Life of Words appeared in English in 1888
.
He also collaborated with Adolphe Hatzfeld in a Dictionnaire general de la langue francaise (2 vols., 1895-1900)
.
Among his most important See also: work was the elucidation of Old French by means of the many glosses in the See also: medieval writings of See also: Rashi and other French Jews
.
His scattered papers on See also: romance and Jewish See also: philology were collected by See also: James Darmesteter as Arsene Darmesteter, reliques scientifiques (2 vols., 1890)
.
His valuable Cours de grammaire historique de In langue francaise was edited after his death by E . Muret and L . Sudre (1891-1895; English edition, 1902) . There is an eloge of James Darmesteter in the Journal asiatique (1894, vol. iv. pp . 519-534), and aSee also: notice by See also: Henri Cordier, with a See also: list of his writings, in The Royal See also: Asiatic Society's Journal (See also: January 1895) ; see also Gaston Paris, " James Darmesteter," in Penseurs et pates (1896), pp
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