Émile-Louis Burnouf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Émile-Louis Burnouf

French orientalist and linguist

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1821

Place of Birth: Valognes, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: professor, philologist, linguist, Indologist, hellenist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Émile-Louis Burnouf (French: [emil.lwi by?nuf]; 26 August 1821, in Valognes – January 1907, in Paris) was a leading nineteenth-century Orientalist and racialist whose ideas Aryanism.
He was a professor at the faculté de lettres at Nancy University, then principal of the French School at Athens from 1867 to 1875.
He was also the author of a Sanskrit-French dictionary.