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Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C
Date transcribed | 2011-01-01 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Barth | | First Name(s) | Marie Etienne Auguste | | Year of Birth | 1834 | | Entry | Born March 22, 1834, at Strasburg: son of Etienne Barth, of the Rhone au Rhin Canal Company : educated at the Collège Royal (now Lycee Impérial) at Strasburg : Professor of Rhetoric and Philosophy at the College at Bouxwiller, 1857-61 : then retired from the public service to devote himself to Indian study : lived first at Strasburg, then at Geneva, (1871-76), and lastly removed to Paris: member of many learned societies : Société Asiatique, 1857: Academy of Inscriptions, 1893 : Royal Asiatic Society, 1894, etc.: Collaborator in the Journal Asiatique, Revue Critique, etc. His chief works are: Les Religions de L'Inde, 1880 (also translated into English) Inscriptions Sanskrites du Cambodge, 1885 : L'Inde ; Buddhisme, Jainisme, Hindouisme, 1894, etc. : has published a yearly bulletin of the religions of India in the Revue de L'Histoire des Religions, 1885, etc. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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