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École Des Langues Orientales
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales ( en, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations), abbreviated as INALCO, is a French university specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. Its coverage spans languages of Central Europe, Africa, Asia, America, and Oceania. It is also informally called ''Langues’O'' (), an abbreviation for ''Langues orientales''. History * 1669 Jean-Baptiste Colbert founds the ''École des jeunes de langues'' language school * 1795 The ''École spéciale des langues orientales'' (Special School for Oriental Languages) is established * 1873 The two schools merge * 1914 The school is renamed the ''École nationale des langues orientales vivantes'' (ENLOV) * 1971 The school is renamed the ''Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales'' or Inalco (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations) * 1982 ''Études Océan Indien'' (Indian Ocean Studies) journal begins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public University
A public university or public college is a university or college that is in state ownership, owned by the state or receives significant government spending, public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country (or region) to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape. Africa Egypt In Egypt, Al-Azhar University was founded in 970 AD as a madrasa; it formally became a public university in 1961 and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the world. In the 20th century, Egypt opened many other public universities with government-subsidized tuition fees, including Cairo University in 1908, Alexandria University in 1912, Assiut University in 1928, Ain Shams University in 1957, Helwan University in 1959, Beni-Suef University in 1963, Zagazig University in 1974, Benha University in 1976, and Suez Canal University in 1989. Kenya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Interpreter
An interpreter officer or army interpreter is a commissioned officer of an armed force, who interprets and/or translates to facilitate military operation. Interpreter officers are used extensively in multinational operations in which two or more countries that do not share a common language are undertaking a joint operation, or expeditionary missions in which the communication with the local population is crucial but limited by lack of language proficiency among the expeditionary force personnel. Interpreter officers also work in the intelligence gathering and analysis though in many countries, civilian analysts are used instead of the officers in active duty. Examples by country France {{Main, Military interpreter (France) United States Interpreting services are provided by personnel from 223rd Military Intelligence Battalion (United States). The United States Military have used the Arabic linguists in the war in Iraq for example. Republic of Korea The Republic of Korea has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Guimbretière
André Guimbretière (1923–2014) was a French Indologist, professor of languages of Inda (Hindi, Urdu) at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales of which he was president from 1969 to 1971. He was a specialist of Muhammad Iqbal. Publications ; Related to the Indian world * ''Le Problème du Cachemire'', Orient, 1966 * Wilfred Cantwell Smith, (1916–2000), ''L'Islam dans le monde moderne slam in modern history', préface et traduction d'André Guimbretière, Éditions Payot, 1962 * ''Personnalisme théocentrique et vision motrice de la beauté chez Muhammad Iqbal : contribution à l'étude de « Wahdat al-Shuhud »'' * Muhammad Iqbal, « La mosquée de Cordoue » (translated by André Guimbretière and Mohd. Hasan Askari), in ''Esprit'', 1958 * ''Le Pakistan depuis la « Révolution pacifique » d´octobre 1958'', Orient, vol. 34 * ''Histoire de l'Inde'' by Pierre Meile, 2nd edition updated by and André Guimbretière, Presses universitaires de France ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Mirambel
André Mirambel (1 October 1900 – 4 June 1970) was a 20th-century French Hellenist. Agrégé of grammar, graduated from the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, André Mirambel was first a professor at the (1925–1928) before he succeeded Jean Psichari from 1929 as professor of modern Greek at the École des langues orientales, of which he was administrator from 1958 to 1969 after he was Henri Massé's assistant since 1954. He was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres since 1965. In 1956, André Mirambel won the Prix Langlois awarded by the Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ... for ''Tasso Tassoulo et autres nouvelles'', by Thrasso Castonakis Bibliography *1948: ''Introduction au grec moderne' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Massé
Henri Massé (2 March 1886 – 9 November 1969) was a 20th-century French orientalist. He was first professor of Arabic and Persian literatures at the faculté des lettres d'Alger, then professor of Persian language at the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes of Paris (1927–1958), of which he was administrator from 1948 to 1958 and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Selected bibliography * ''Croyances et coutumes persanes'', suivies de ''Contes et chansons populaires'', Paris, Librairie orientale et américaine, 1938 * ''Le Livre des merveilles du monde'', Paris, , 1944 * ''Anthologie persane, XIe - XIXe siècles'', dernière réédition (2004) dans la ''Petite Bibliothèque Payot'', n°330, * ''L'Islam'', Édition Armand Colin, Paris (Section d'histoire et sciences économiques), 5e édition revue, 1948 * ''Essai sur le poète Saadi'', Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner * ''Les épopées persanes : Firdousi et l'épopée nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Deny
Jean Deny (12 July 1879 – 5 Novembre 1963) was a French grammarian, specialist of oriental languages. Biography Born to a French father and a Polish mother settled in Kiev, Jean Deny became familiar with the French, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian languages at a young age. After the baccalaureate, he specialized in Oriental languages (classical Arabic, Arabic dialect, Persian, Turkish and Russian). He became professor of turkology Turkology (or Turcology or Turkic studies) is a complex of humanities sciences studying languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of people speaking Turkic languages and Turkic peoples in chronological and comparative cont ... at the Sorbonne after he taught at the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes of which he was administrator from 1937 to 1948. He retired in 1949 and died in 1963. Selected works *1921: ''Grammaire de la langue turque (dialecte osmanli)'' *1955: ''Principes de grammaire turque'' *1959: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Language
Romanian (obsolete spellings: Rumanian or Roumanian; autonym: ''limba română'' , or ''românește'', ) is the official and main language of Romania and the Republic of Moldova. As a minority language it is spoken by stable communities in the countries surrounding Romania (Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia, and Ukraine), and by the large Romanian diaspora. In total, it is spoken by 28–29 million people as an L1+ L2, of whom 23–24 millions are native speakers. In Europe, Romanian is rated as a medium level language, occupying the tenth position among thirty-seven official languages. Romanian is part of the Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages, a linguistic group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin which separated from the Western Romance languages in the course of the period from the 5th to the 8th centuries. To distinguish it within the Eastern Romance languages, in comparative linguistics it is called '' Daco-Romanian'' as opposed to its closest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
