Eugène-Louis Hauvette-Besnault

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French indologist

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France

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Indologist Translator Professor Educator

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Academia Social science

Gender

Male

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Birth

15 February 1820 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Malesherbes, France

Death

20 June 1888 (aged 68 years) People who died on this day

Place of death

Malesherbes, France

Age

68 years

Family

Children:

Amédée Hauvette Henri Hauvette

Awards

Knight of the Legion of Honour

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Eugène-Louis Hauvette-Besnault (5 February 1820 – 28 June 1888) was a 19th-century French Indologist.

Biography

Eugène-Louis Hauvette-Besnault was professor of sanskrit at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). Agrégé de lettres in 1853, he translated volumes IV and V of the Bhagavata Purana.

He was one of Eugène Burnouf's last students. Among his own students in Sanskrit were James Darmesteter and Abel Bergaigne.

The historian and epigrapher René Cagnat was his stepson.

Publications

1859: Morceaux choisis en prose et en vers des classiques anglais, with Frédéric-Gustave Eichhoff.
1865: Pantchâdhyâyi, ou les Cinq chapitres sur les amours de Crichna avec les Gopîs, extrait du Bhâgavata Purâna, livre X, chapitres XXIX-XXXIII
1867: Le Mahâbhârata, poème épique de Krishna-Dwaipayana, traduit complètement pour la première fois du sanscrit en français, by M. Hippolyte Fauche. Compte rendu signé Hauvette-Besnault
1881: Le Bhâgavata purâna ou Histoire poétique de Kreichna, by Eugène Burnouf, Eugène Louis Hauvette-Besnault, Alfred Roussel and Jean Filliozat
1886: Épisode des grains de riz écrasés
1898: Le Bhâgavata Purâna ou Histoire poétique de Kreichna by Eugène Burnouf, Eugène-Louis Hauvette-Besnault and Alfred Roussel