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Sylvain Lévi (March 28, 1863 – October 30, 1935) was an influential French orientalist and indologist who taught Sanskrit and Indian religion at the École pratique des hautes études.[1][2]

Sylvain Lévi
Born(1863-03-28)March 28, 1863
Paris, France
DiedOctober 30, 1935(1935-10-30) (aged 72)
Paris, France
Scientific career
FieldsSanskrit language, literature, Buddhism
InstitutionsCollège de France
Notable studentsPaul Demiéville, Paul Pelliot. Marcel Mauss

Lévi's book Théâtre Indien is an important work on the subject of Indian performance art, and Lévi also conducted some of the earliest analysis of Tokharian fragments discovered in Western China. Lévi exerted a significant influence on the life and thought of Marcel Mauss, the nephew of Émile Durkheim.


Co-Founds the École française d'Extrême-Orient in Hanoi, Vietnam


Sylvain Lévi was a co-founder of the École française d'Extrême-Orient in Hanoi.

According to the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Lévi was the (one of the) founder(s) of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) (French School of the Far East) in Hanoi.[3] The École française d'Extrême-Orient's website notes that the school was founded in Hanoi in 1902.[4] One of his students, Suzanne Karpelès, the first female member of EFEO, joined him there in 1922 and remained in French Indochina until 1941.[5]


Opinions


He was also an early opponent of the traditionalist author René Guénon, citing the latter's uncritical belief in a "Perennial philosophy", that a primal truth revealed directly to primitive humanity, based on an extreme reductionist view of Hinduism, which was the subject of Guénon's first book, L'Introduction générale a l'étude des doctrines hindoues. That was a thesis delivered to Lévi at the Sorbonne and rejected.


Works


Lévi and his wife at Shantiniketan, India
Lévi and his wife at Shantiniketan, India

References


  1. Riley, Alexander, author. (April 2010). Godless intellectuals? : the intellectual pursuit of the sacred reinvented. ISBN 9781845458263. OCLC 645101926. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. "Sylvain Levi (French orientalist)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  3. Landman,Isaac The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia...: An Authoritative and Popular Presentation of Jews and Judaism Since the Earliest Times, 1942 Page 626; Comay, Joan & Cohn-Sherbok, Lavinia Who's Who in Jewish History: After the Period of the Old Testament Routledge, 1995 ISBN 0-415-12583-9 Page 231
  4. École française d'Extrême-Orient: History Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Goodman, J. (2018). Suzanne Karpelès (1890-1969): Thinking With the Width and Thickness of Time: Suzanne Karpelès (1890-1969) Denken mit der Breite und Tiefe der Zeit. Bildungsgeschichte - International journal for the historiography of education : IJHE, 8(2), 231-244. https://winchester.elsevierpure.com/en/publications/suzanne-karpel%C3%A8s-1890-1969-thinking-with-the-width-and-thickness-

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