Henri Massé (2 March 1886 – 9 November 1969Notice d'autorité personne
sur le site du catalogue général de la BnF) 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 Persian ( ), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision ...

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 The () is a French learned society devoted to history, founded in February 1663 as one of the five academies of the . The academy's scope was the study of ancient inscriptions (epigraphy) and historical literature (see Belles-lettres). History ...

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, XI^e - XIX^e 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 nationale'', * ''Croyances et coutumes persanes'' (2 vol.), G. P. Maisonneuve * ''Le Béharistan de Djami'' (traduit du persan), Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner * ''Contes en persan populaire'' (recueillis et traduits), Imprimerie nationale * ''L'exposé des religions d'Abou'l-Maâli'' (translated from Persian), Éditions Leroux * ''Mélanges d'orientalisme offerts à Henri Massé... à l'occasion de son 75e anniversaire'', Téhéran, Impr. de l'université, coll. * 1963: Publications of the

University of Tehran The University of Tehran (UT) or Tehran University (, ) is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as ...

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External links

Bibliothèque Henri Massé
UFR d'études arabes et hébraïques, Paris IV Sorbonne
Obituary
on Persée

{{DEFAULTSORT:Masse, Henri French orientalists French Iranologists Translators to French Translators from Persian Academic staff of the University of Algiers Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1886 births 1969 deaths 20th-century French translators Shahnameh Researchers