ZIGMUND-CERBU, Anton. Bucharest 19.10.1923 — New York City 10.3.1964. Romanian Buddhist and South-East Asian Scholar in France and the U.S.A. Born in a family of Jewish intellectuals. Studies at Bucharest, graduated 1946. Left Romania in 1947, first to Paris. Now studies at É.P.H.É. and E.L.O.V. Worked in C.N.R.S. In 1959 travelled in Asia. From 1960 Assistant Professor of Buddhist and Oriental Religions at Columbia University in New York. He was ill and could not complete his doctorate before the early death. Married Liza (Elise) Z.-C. (1924–1965), a specialist of Church Syriac and Patristic Literature, who moved together with his husband to France and U.S.A. Because of early death the major part of his studies remained unpublished. A friend of Eliade.
Publications: “A propos d’un vajra khmer”, Art. As. 24, 1961. 425-431, 2 pl.; ”The Ṣadaṅgayoga”, Hist. of Rel. 3, 1963, 128-134.
Sources: *A. Roşu, “De L’histoire des études orientales à Paris: A. et L. Z-C”, BEI 17-18, 1999-2000, 21-32; *A. Roşu, “Anton et Liza Z.-C., orientalistes de talent en exil”, Studia Asiatica (Bucharest) 1, 2000, 11-23; angkordatabase.asia.
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