HACKIN, Joseph Gaspard. Boevange-sur-Attert (Luxemburg) 8.11.1885 (or 1886?) — on sea 24.2.1941. French (born Luxemburgian) Officer and Archaeologist of Afghanistan, also interested in Tibet. French citizen 1912. Son of a coachman, the family moved to Normandy when he was one year old. Grew up in Magny village (Calvados), educated in…
GUYARD, Stanislas. Frottey-lès-Vesoul (Haute-Saône) 27.9.1846 — Paris 7.9.1884. French Oriental, especially Semitic scholar, but with wide interests, including Indology. Son of Auguste Guyard (1808–1882), a radical idealist who wanted to introduce a universal religion and homeopathy. Spent three years in Russia, came to Paris in 1861 in the age of…
GUIGNES, Joseph de. Pontoise (Seine-et-Oise) 19.10.1721 — Paris 19.3.1800. French Oriental Scholar, a Pioneer of Sinology and Precursor of Indology. Professor in Paris. Son of Jean Louis de Guignes and Françoise Vaillant. Recommended by his cousin, Professor Le Vaillant, he was accepted as a student by the Sinologist Etienne Fourmont…
GUIEYSSE, Georges. Paris 1.1.1869 — 17.5.1889. French Indologist. Son of Eugène Guieysse (d. 1889), a physician, sister’s son to the engineer-Egyptologist and politician Paul Guieysse (1841–1914). Educated at Lycée Henri IV, then studies of Indology and IE under S. Lévi, Bréal, Bergaigne, de Saussure, and Darmesteter. One of the first…
GUÉRINOT, Armand Albert. Messon (Aube) 25.11.1872 — 1940?. French Indologist. Studied under Regnaud at Lyon, Ph.D. there 1900. 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…
GUÉNON, René Jean Marie Joseph. Blois 15.11.1886 — Cairo 7.1.1951. French Philosopher and Author interested in Indian philosophy, rather uncritical admirer of the East. Son of Jean-Baptiste Guénon, an architect, and Anna-Léontine Jolly. Grew up in a Catholic home, school in Blois, suffered often of poor health. He studied mathematics…
GROUSSET, René Jean François Marie. Aubais (Gard) 5.9.1885 — Paris 12.11(9?).1952. French Historian of Asia. Lost his father before birth (Louis-Xavier-René Grousset 1860–1885, historian and poet). After history studies at Montpellier moved to Paris and started Museum work. Participated in the WW I as sergeant and was seriously wounded in…
GROSSET, Joanny. Lyon (Rhône) 29.3.1862 — 1931. French Pioneer of the Study of Indian Music. From the university of Lyon, a student of Regnaud (who wrote the Preface to the 1898 book). Licencié-ès-lettres. Unfortunately, he shared some ideas of his time, looking for “pure, original Aryan music”. He gave ideas…
GROSLIER, Bernard-Philippe. Phnom Penh 10.5.1926 — Paris 29.5.1986. French Archaeologist and Historian of South-East Asia. A specialist of Cambodia, but also wrote on Gandhāra art (1951). Son of Georges Groslier (1887–1945), the founder and first curator of the Museum of Phnom Penh, and Suzanne Cecile Poujade. Born in Cambodia he…
GRIMBLOT, Jean Paul Auguste. Marseille 28.6.1817 — Florence 23.5.1870. French Diplomat and Indologist. Studies of Indology in Paris under Burnouf. Traveled in Germany, U.K. and Italy. From 18?? French Consul in Ceylon and Burma. In Ceylon he learned Pāli and studied Buddhism, and achieved a fine collection of manuscripts for…