RENEL, Charles Ulysse. Strasbourg 6.5.1866 — Antanarivo 9.9.1925. French Philologist. The only child of Émile Louis Étienne Renel, a railway official, and Uranie Charlotte Henriette Lafite (d. 1878). After Franco-Prussian war the family moved to Épinal (Vosges). From 1884 studies in Paris, at Lycée Louis-le-Grand and from 1886 École normale supérieure,…
REGNAUD, Paul. Mantoche (Haute-Saône) 19.4.1838 — Sanary-sur-Mer (Var) 18.11.1910. French Indologist. Professor in Lyon. Son of a court clerk. From 1868 studies at Paris under Bergaigne and Hauvette-Besnault. Diplom of É.P.H.É. 1873, worked as journalist in Franche-Comte. Ph.D. 1884 Paris. From 1879 maître de conférence and from 1887 the first…
MINARD, Armand. Paris 30.12.1906 — Paris 17.4.1998. French Indologist. Professor in Lyon and Paris. Son of a modest trader, educated at Lycée Chaptal. In 1927-32 studies at École Normale Supérieure and É.P.H.É. (Meillet, Lévi, Bloch, Renou). Licence ès Lettres 1928, agrégation de grammaire 1930. Ph.D. 1937 Paris. From 1933 chargé…
LACÔTE, Félix. Moulins (Allier) 3.9.1873 — 20.3.1925. French Indologist. Professor in Lyon. Studies of philology, graduated a teacher in 1896. During studies he had been interested in Sanskrit and concentrated now on Sanskrit and Tibetan studies and became a student of Lévi. From 1899 teacher at Lycée of Montluçon, spent…
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…