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

Indologist Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies. The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') is ...

Biography

Eugène-Louis Hauvette-Besnault was professor of

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at the

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(EPHE). Agrégé de lettres in 1853, he translated volumes IV and V of the ''

Bhagavata Purana The ''Bhagavata Purana'' (; ), also known as the ''Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam)'', ''Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana'' () or simply ''Bhagavata (Bhāgavata)'', is one of Hinduism's eighteen major Puranas (''Mahapuranas'') and one ...

''. He was one of Eugène Burnouf's last students. Among his own students in Sanskrit were

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and Abel Bergaigne. The historian and epigrapher

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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 Jean Filliozat (4 November 1906 in Paris – 27 October 1982 in Paris) was a French writer. He studied medicine and was a physician between 1930 and 1947. He learned Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan and Tamil. He wrote some important works on the history ...

*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

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on wikisource {{DEFAULTSORT:Hauvette-Besnault, Eugene-Louis French Indologists Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études People from Loiret 1820 births 1888 deaths 19th-century French translators