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VICTOR HENRY (1850– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 302 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VICTOR HENRY (1850– )  , French philologist, was born at Colmar in Alsace . Having held appointments at
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Douai and
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Lille, he was appointed profe.or of
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Sanskrit and
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comparative grammar in the university of Paris . A prolific and versatile writer, he is probably best known by the
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English
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translations of his Precis de Grammaire comparee de l'anglais et de l'allemand and Precis . . . du Grec et du Latin . Important
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works by him on India and
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Indian
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languages are: Manuel pour etudier le Sanscrit vedique (with A . Bergaigne, 1890); Elements de Sanscrit classique (1902); Precis de grammaire Pdlie (1904);
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Les Litteratures de l'Inde: Sanscrit,
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Pali, Prdcrit (1904); La Magie dans l'Inde antique (1904); Le Parsisme (1905); L'
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Agni,ftoma (1906) . Obscure languages (such as Innok,
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Quichua, Greenland) and
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local dialects (Lexique €tymologique du Breton
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modern; Le Diaiecte Alaman de Colmar) also claimed his attention . Le Langage Martien is a curious
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book . It contains a discussion of some 40 phrases (amounting to about Soo words), which a certain Mademoiselle Helene Smith (a well-known spiritualist
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medium of Geneva), while on a hypnotic visit to the planet Mars, learnt and repeated and even wrote down during her trance as specimens of a language spoken there, explained to her by a disembodied interpreter .

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