SCHWAB, Raymond Sem. Nancy 23.2.1884 — Paris 2.6.1956. French Author, High Official and Historian of Oriental Studies. Son of insurance director Alexandre Schwab and Léontine Lévy, a Jewish family from Lorraine. Educated in Nancy. Licence-es-lettres 1906 Paris. Participated in WW I 1915-19. In 1920 adopted Catholic Christianity. Served in high public offices (in senate), in 1940 dismissed because of his Jewish origin, but after the war continued his career. During WW II in Switzerland. Legion d’honneur 1928, officer 1948.

Publications: La vie d’Anqutil-Duperron suivie des usages civils et religieux des parses par Anqutil-Duperron. 8+240 p. P. 1934.

– La renaissance orientale. 526 p. P. 1950, English translation by G. Patterson-Black and V. Reiking: The Oriental Renaissance: Europe’s Rediscovery of India and the East, 1680-1880 (Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms). New York 1984

– Also wrote poetry, fiction and essays.

Sources: R. Lardinois, D.O.L.F. 878f.; *E.W. Said, “R.M. and the Romance of ideas”, Daedalus 109, 1976 (again in his The World, the Text and the Critic. Cambridge, MA 1983, 248-267); French Wikipédia.