See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:DARMESTETER (1849-1894)
, See also:French author and antiquarian, was See also:born of Jewish parents on the 28th of See also:March 1849 at See also:Chateau See also:Salins, in See also:Alsace
.
The See also:family name had originated in their earlier See also:home of See also:Darmstadt
.
He was educated in See also:Paris, where, under the guidance of See also: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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
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 See also:century B.C., and the bulk in the 3rd century A.D
.
In 1885 he was appointed See also: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 See also:essay on the Afghan See also: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
.
See also:Mary F
.
See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
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 See also: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'See also: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 See also: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 See also: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 See also:Jews
.
His scattered papers on See also:romance and Jewish See also:philology were collected by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
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 See also:Journal asiatique (1894, vol. iv. pp
.
519-534), and a See 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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.
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