Étienne Lamotte, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Étienne Lamotte

indologist, priest, professor

Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1903

Place of Birth: Dinant, Wallonia, Belgium

Date of Death: 05-May-1983

Profession: Catholic priest, translator, university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Étienne Paul Marie Lamotte (November 21, 1903 – May 5, 1983) was a Belgian priest and Professor of Greek at the Catholic University of Louvain, but was better known as an Indologist and the greatest authority on Buddhism in the West in his time.
He studied under his pioneering compatriot Louis de La Vallée-Poussin and was one of the few scholars familiar with all the main Buddhist languages: Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan.
His first published work was his PhD thesis: Notes sur le Bhagavad-Gita (Paris, Geuthner, 1929).
- In 1953, he was awarded the Francqui Prize in Human Science.