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

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