James Darmesteter (March 28, 1849 - October 10, 1894), French author and antiquarian, was born of Jewish parents at Chateau Salins, in Alsace. March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in Leap years). ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... An antiquarian is one concerned with antiquities or things of the past. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ... ‹The template below has been proposed for deletion. ...

The family name had originated in their earlier home of Darmstadt. He was educated in Paris, where, under the guidance of Michel Bréal and Abel Bergaigne, he imbibed a love for Oriental studies, to which for a time he entirely devoted himself. He was a man of vast intellectual range. In 1875 he published a thesis on the mythology of the Zend Avesta, and in 1877 became teacher of Zend at the École des Hautes Etudes. He followed up his researches with his Etudes iraniennes (1883), and ten years later published a complete translation of the Zend Avesta, with historical and philological commentary (3 vols., 1892-1893), in the Annales du Musée Guimet. He also edited the Zend Avesta for Max Müller's Sacred Books of the East (vols. 4 and 23). Map of Germany showing Darmstadt Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse in Germany. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Michel Jules Alfred Bréal (March 26, 1832 - 1915), French philologist, was born at Landau in Rhenish Bavaria, of French parents. ... See Avesta Municipality for the Swedish town Yasna 28. ... Yasna 28. ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... Guimet in his museum. ... Max Müller Friedrich Max Müller (December 6, 1823 – October 28, 1900), more commonly known as Max Müller, was a German-born British Philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of Indian studies, who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion. ... The Sacred Books of the East is a monumental, 50-volume set of English translations of Asian religious writings, edited by Max Müller and published by the Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. ...

Darmesteter regarded the extant texts as far were conveyed in Lettres sur l'Inde (1888). England interested him deeply; and his attachment to the gifted English writer, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, whom he shortly afterwards married (and who in 1901 became the wife of Professor E. Duclaux, director of the Pasteur Institute at Paris), led him to translate her poems into French in 1888. Two years after his death a collection of excellent essays on English subjects was published in English. He also wrote Le Mahdi depuis les origines de l'Islam jusqu'a nos jours (1885); Les Origines de la poesie persane (1888); Prophètes d'Israel (1892), and other books on topics connected with the east, and from 1883 onwards drew up the annual reports of the Société Asiatique. He had just become connected with the Revue de Paris, when his delicate constitution succumbed to a slight attack of illness on the 10th of October 1894. His elder brother, Arsène Darmesteter, was a distinguished philologist and man of letters. Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, known after her second marriage as Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux (1857-1944) was an English writer and scholar on many subjects connected with France and French literature, and a poet. ... The Pasteur Institute (French: Institut Pasteur) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, microorganisms, diseases and vaccines. ... Arsène Darmesteter (1846-1888), was a distinguished philologist and man of letters. ...

There is an éloge of James Darmesteter in the Journal asiatique (1894, vol. iv. pp. 519-534), and a notice by Henri Cordier, with a list of his writings, in The Royal Asiatic Society's Journal (January 1895); see also Gaston Paris, "James Darmesteter," in Penseurs et poètes (1896), (pp. 1-61). Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (August 9, 1839 _ March 6, 1903), was a French scholar, the son of Alexis Paulin Paris. ...

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