Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Burnouf, Émile Louis
BURNOUF, Émile Louis, philologist, born at Valognes, Manche, Aug. 25, 1821, was a pupil at the Lycée, Saint-Louis; being received into the Normal School in 1841, took his degree of Doctor-in-letters in 1850, and was appointed Professor of Ancient Literature to the Faculty of Nancy. Afterwards he was Director of the French School at Athens, a post which he vacated in 1875. In 1878 he received the title of Honorary Director of the School at Athens. He is the author of the following theses and works:—"Des Principes de l'Art d'après la méthode et les doctrines de Platon;" "De Neptuno ejusque Cultu, præsertim in Peloponneso" (1850, theses); a translation, "Extraits du Novum Organum de Bacon," 1854; "Essai sur le Véda, ou Introduction à la Connaissance de l'Inde," 1863; "Méthode pour étudier la Langue Sanscrite sur le plan des Méthodes de J. L. Burnouf" (in conjunction with M. Leupol), 1859; "Dictionnaire Classique Sanscrit-Français," 1863–65; "La Science des Religions," 3rd ed., 1876; "L'Indigo Japonais," 1874; and "La Mythologie des Japonais," 1878.