Suzanne Karpelès
Suzanne Karpelès (17 March 18907 November 1968) was a French Indologist, who was a multilingual specialist in the languages and cultures of colonized French Indonesia. She was the first curator of the Royal Library of Phnom Penh and suggested the founding of the Buddhist Institute of Cambodia where she served as the first secretary-general. Biography Karpelès was born in Paris into a wealthy family of Hungarian Jews and grew up in Puducherry (city), Pondicherry on the east coast of the Indian peninsula which was a French colonial territory at that time. Education In 1917 Paris, Karpelès was the first woman to graduate from the École orientales (oriental school) of the École Pratique des Hautes Études, where she studied eastern cultures and languages including, Sanskrit, Pali, Nepali language, Nepali, Tibetan script, Tibetan language and Tibetan religion.Goodman, J. (2018). Suzanne Karpelès (1890-1969): Thinking With the Width and Thickness of Time: Suzanne Karpelès (18 ...
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