ESNOUL, Anne-Marie Helène. Saint-Malo, Brittany 19.4.1908 — Saint-Malo 23.1.1996. French Indologist. Esnoul-Le Sénéchal is a noble family of Saint-Malo, daughter of Louis Esnoul-Le Sénéchal and Andrée Lebret. After school in Saint-Malo and licence de philosophie in Paris, studied from 1934 Sanskrit under Masson-Oursel and Stchoupak. Diplome d’É.P.H.É. 1947, Ph.D. 196?.…
ERNOUT, Alfred Georges. Lille 30.10.1879 — Paris 16.6.1973. French IE and Classical Linguist, mainly Latin Scholar. Son of Léon Ernout, tradesman in Lille, and Célina Louisa Venelle. Educated at Lycée de Lille, studied at Faculté des lettres de Lille (lic.ès lettres 1900) and at Sorbonne (dr.ès lettres 1908) and É.P.H.É.…
EICHHOFF, Frédéric-Gustave. Le Havre 17.8.1799 — Paris 10/11.5.1875. French (of German background) Linguist. Born as the son of a Hamburg merchant settled in France, Gustave Eichhoff (1738–1818), and Marie Slomé Barthel. Studies in Paris, Ph.D. 1826 (diss. I on Hesiod and diss. II De memoria). From 1827 taught German to…
DUVAU, Louis Léon. Saumur (Maine-et-Loire) 12.7.1864 — Angers (Maine-et-Loire) 14.7.1903. French IE Linguist. After school in Orléans studied in Paris (under Bréal and de Saussure) and 1886-87 Leipzig, then two years further studies in Rome. Licencié 1883, agrégé 1884 Paris. From c. 1887-88 Professor (maître de conférences) of classical philology…
DUTREUIL DE RHINS, Jules-Léon. Saint-Étienne (Loire) 2.1.1846 — Tong-mbon-ndo in Kham 5.6.1894. French Marine Officer, Cartographer, Traveller and Explorer. Son of Jean-Denis Dutreuil de Rhins (1816–1872) and Jeanne Félicité Blondart. Born in the Loire area, educated at École navale. Joined first the merchant navy, soon moved to military navy. In…
DUTENS, Jean-Michel Albert Alfred. Abbeville (Somme) 13.3.1841 — Paris 8.7.1917. French Linguist. Son of Louis Dutens (1800–1866) and Marie Amélie Hecquet d’Orval. Ph.D. 1883 Paris. According to Meillet his dissertation was good, but attracted so little attention that the depressed author never published much more, although remained member of the…
DUROISELLE, Charles. Paris 25.6.1871 — Paris 7.4.1951. French Archaeologist and Pāli Scholar in Burma. Son of François Victor Duroiselle, a designer, and Clara Lorichon, went to Burma when 19. From 1903 correspondant of É.F.E.O. In 1909 Honorary Keeper of Manuscripts in Bernard Free Library, Rangoon. Superintendent of the Archaeological Survey…
DUPUIS, Louis Savinien. Sens, Yonne (Bourgogne) 18.8.1806 — Pondichéry 4.6.1874. Father. French Missionary and Tamil Scholar in India. Son of Edme Louis Dupuis und Victoire Remy. The home was very religious and he was put in local Jesuit school. Also seminary in Sens, ordained priest 1829. In 1831 sent to…
DUPONT-SOMMER, André Louis. Marnes-la-Coquette near Paris 23.12.1900 — Paris 14.5.1983. French Epigraphist and Semitic Scholar, a Specialist of Aramaic. Son of a lawyer. After school military service in 1920-22. Then studied philology and theology in Paris, licence in both in 1924 and 1928 resp. Further studies of archaeology in Jerusalem,…
DUPONT, Pierre. Paris 3.12.1908 — Bangkok 16.10.1955 (Auboyer: 31.12.1908–18.10.1955). French Archaeologist of South-East Asia (especially Cambodia). Professor in Paris. Studies of Indology, South-East Asian studies, art and archaeology in Paris under Lévi, Foucher, Picard and Stern, at É.P.H.É., Institut d’éthnologie and École du Louvre. Worked in Musée Guimet, in French…