Sylvain Lévi

Sylvain Lévi
Born (1863-03-28)March 28, 1863
Paris, France
Died October 30, 1935(1935-10-30) (aged 72)
Paris, France
Fields Sanskrit language, literature, Buddhism
Institutions Collège de France
Notable students Paul Demiéville, Paul Pelliot. Marcel Mauss

Sylvain Lévi (March 28, 1863 – October 30, 1935) was an orientalist and indologist.[1]

His book Théâtre Indien is an important work on the subject. Lévi also conducted some of the earliest analysis of Tokharian fragments discovered in Western China.

Co-Founds the École française d'Extrême-Orient in Hanoi, Vietnam

Sylvain Lévi was a co-founder of the École française d'Extrême-Orient in Hanoi.

According to the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Lévi was the (one of the) founder(s) of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (French School of the Far East) in Hanoi.[2] The École française d'Extrême-Orient's website notes that the school was founded in Hanoi in 1902.[3]

Opinions

He was also an early opponent of the traditionalist author René Guénon, citing the latter's uncritical belief in a "Perennial philosophy", that a primal truth revealed directly to primitive humanity, based on an extreme reductionist view of Hinduism, which was the subject of Guénon's first book, L'Introduction générale a l'étude des doctrines hindoues. That was a thesis delivered to Lévi at the Sorbonne and rejected.

Works

References

  1. "Sylvain Levi (French orientalist)". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  2. Landman,Isaac The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia...: An Authoritative and Popular Presentation of Jews and Judaism Since the Earliest Times, 1942 Page 626; Comay, Joan & Cohn-Sherbok, Lavinia Who's Who in Jewish History: After the Period of the Old Testament Routledge, 1995 ISBN 0-415-12583-9 Page 231
  3. École française d'Extrême-Orient: History

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