GUÉRINOT, A.

GUÉRINOT, Armand Albert. Messon (Aube) 25.11.1872 — 1940?. French Indologist. Studied under Regnaud at Lyon, Ph.D. there 1900. Apparently also dr.med. Further studies at Bonn under Jacobi. In 1909 he was “correcteur pour la typographie orientale” in Imprimérie nationale, in 1924 no longer a member of Société asiatique. Mainly a scholar of Jaina religion and literature (including epigraphy).

Publications: Diss. 1. De rhetorica vedica. 11+120 p. P. 1900; diss 2. Recherches sur l’origine de l’idée de Dieu d’après le Rig-Véda. 356 p. Ann. de l’Univ. de Lyon, N.S. II. Droit, lettres fasc. 3. Lyon 1900.

Edited & transl.: “Śāntisūri: Le Jīvaviyāra, un traité jaina sur les êtres vivants”, JA 9:19, 1902, 231-288; reviews in JA.

Translated: Kālidāsa: Meghadūta, Le Nuage messager. 95 p. P. 1902.

– “La doctrine des êtres vivantes dans la religion Jaïna”, RHR 47, 1903, 34-50.

Essai de bibliographie jaina. 568 p. A.M.G., B.d’Ét. 22. P. 1906; “Notes de bibliographie jaina”, JA 10:14, 1909, 47-148; further bibliographical notices in JA 1910, 1912, 1915 & 1916.

Repertoire d’épigraphie jaina. 311 p. P.E.F.E.O. 10. P. 1908; La Religion Djaïna. Historie, Doctrine, Culte, Coutumes, Institutions. 358 p. 25 pl. P. 1926.

La culte des morts chez les Hebreux. 49 p. 1905 (also in JA 1904).

L’Ethique de Spinoza. Nouvelle traduction. P. 1930; also wrote on Maupassant.

Sources: Works in N.U.C. and Catal. Bibl.nat., also Cat. gén. de la Libr. fr. 18, 1900–1905, P. 1908 & 21, 1906–1909, P. 1911; member lists of Soc.as. 1909, 1924; exact birth and tentative death date in data.bnf.fr.

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