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:

• JAMES DARMESTETER (1849-1894)

DARMESTETER (1849-1894)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French author and antiquarian, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born of Jewish parents on the 28th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1849 at See also:

• CHATEAU (from Lat. castellum, fortress, through O. Fr. chastel, chasteau)

Chateau See also:

• SALINS

Salins, in See also:

• ALSACE (Ger. Elsass)

Alsace . The See also:

• FAMILY

family name had originated in their earlier See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home of See also:

• DARMSTADT

Darmstadt . He was educated in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, where, under the guidance of See also:

• MICHEL
• MICHEL, CLAUDE
• MICHEL, FRANCISQUE XAVIER (1809-1887)

Michel See also:

• BREAL, MICHEL JULES ALFRED (1832— )

Breal and See also:

• ABEL (better ABELL), THOMAS (d. 1540)
• ABEL (Hebrew for breath)
• ABEL, KARL FRIEDRICH (1725-1787)
• ABEL, NIELS HENRIK (1802-1829)
• ABEL, SIR FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, BART

Abel Bergaigne, he imbibed a love for See also:

• ORIENTAL

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
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of vast intellectual range . In 1875 he published a thesis on the See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology of the Zend Avesta, and in 1877 became teacher of Zend at the Ecole See also:

• DES

des Hautes Etudes . He followed up his researches with his Etudes iraniennes (1883), and ten years later published a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of the Zend Avesta, with See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical and philological commentary (3 vols., 1892-1893), in the Annales du See also:

• MUSIC

music . See also:

• GUIMET, JEAN BAPTISTE

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
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East . See also:

• DARMESTETER, JAMES (1849-1894)

Darmesteter regarded the extant texts as far more See also:

• RECENT

recent than was commonly believed, placing the earliest in the 1st See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C., and the bulk in the 3rd century A.D . In 1885 he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor in the See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College de See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, and was sent to See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India in 1886 on a See also:

• MISSION

mission to collect the popular songs of the Afghans, a translation of which, with a valuable See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay on the Afghan See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language and literature, he published on his return . His impressions of See also:

• ENGLISH

English dominion in India were conveyed in Lettres sur l'Inde (1888) . See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England interested him deeply; and his See also:

• ATTACHMENT

attachment to the gifted English writer, A .

See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

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, AGNES MARY F

Duclaux, director of the See also:

• PASTEUR, LOUIS (1822-1895)

Pasteur See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute at Paris), led him to translate her poems into French in 1888 . Two years after his See also:

• DEATH

death a collection of excellent essays on English subjects was published in English . He also wrote Le See also:

• MANDI

Mandi depuis See also:

• LES

les origins de l'See also:

• ISLAM

Islam jusqu'd nos jours (1885) ; Les Origines de la poesie persane (1888); Prophetes d'See also:

• ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

Israel (1892), and other books on topics connected with the east, and from 1883 onwards See also:

• DREW
• DREW, SAMUEL (1765-1833)

drew up the See also:

• ANNUAL

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

October 1894 . His See also:

• ELDER (0. Eng. ellarn; Ger. Holunder; Fr. sureau)
• ELDER (Gr. 1rpev(3iTepos)

elder See also:

• BROTHER

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

Sorbonne . His See also:

• LIFE

Life of Words appeared in English in 1888 . He also collaborated with Adolphe Hatzfeld in a Dictionnaire See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general de la langue francaise (2 vols., 1895-1900) . Among his most important See also:

• WORK

work was the elucidation of Old French by means of the many glosses in the See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval writings of See also:

• RASHI (1040•-1105)

Rashi and other French See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews . His scattered papers on See also:

• ROMANCE

romance and Jewish See also:

• PHILOLOGY

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
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal asiatique (1894, vol. iv. pp . 519-534), and a See also:

• NOTICE

notice by See also:

• HENRI

Henri Cordier, with a See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his writings, in The Royal See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic Society's Journal (See also:

• JANUARY

January 1895) ; see also Gaston Paris, " James Darmesteter," in Penseurs et pates (1896), pp . 1-61) .