SCHWAB, Raymond Sem. Nancy 23.2.1884 — Paris 2.6.1956. French Author and Historian of Oriental Studies. Son of insurance director Alexandre Schwab and Léontine Lévy. Licence-es-lettres 1906. 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. Legion d’honneur 1928, officer 1948.

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

– La renaissance orientale. 526 p. P. 1950, English transl. 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: *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.