LADONNE, Arthur

LADONNE, Justin Arthur. Bordeaux 20.5.1832 — Bassens, Gironde 30.8.1889. French self-taught Sanskritist in Bordeaux, where he gave a “cours libre de sanskrit” at Faculté de Lettres in 1886–89.Son of Erasme L. (d. 1833) and Marthe Durant. He was a landowner and belonged to local scholarly societies. Married 1864 Marie Louise Laure Balguerie,…

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CUNY, Albert

CUNY, Albert-Louis-Marie. Saint-Dié (Vosges) 16.5.1869 — Bordeaux 21.3.1947. French Lin­guist. Professor in Bordeaux. Son of Charles C. and Euphrasie Petit-demange. After Petit seminaire de Chatel & Autrey and Institut Catholique de Lille, studies at Sorbonne in Paris (under Meillet). Dr. ès lettres. In the 1890s tutor in different parts of…

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