Jules Bloch

Jules Bloch ( born May 1, 1880 in Paris, † November 29, 1953 ) was a French Indologist and linguist.

Bloch studied at the Ecole des langues orientales with Sylvain Lévi and Antoine Meillet with a diploma in 1905 and at the École pratique des hautes études. He received his doctorate in 1914 in Paris and was Directeur d' études 1919-1951 at the École pratique des hautes études, 1921-1937 Professor at the École des langues orientales, and from 1937 to 1941 and from 1944 to 1951 professor of Sanskrit at the Collège de France.

He dealt with Indian languages ​​and comparative linguistic studies within the Indo-European language family.

Writings

  • Castes et dialectes s tamoul. Mémoires de la Société de linguistique de Paris, Volume 16, 1910, pp. 1-30
  • La formation de la langue Marathe. Honoré Champion, Bibliothèque de l' École des hautes études. Sciences historiques et philologiques 215, Paris 1920, (Dissertation 1914, but only published in full in 1920, received the Prix Volney )
  • La phrase en nominal sanskrit. Librairie Honoré Champion, coll Mémoires de la Société de linguistique, Volume XIV, Paris, 1909
  • Un manuel du scribe cachemirien au XVIIe siècle, le Lokaprakāça, attribué à Ksemendra. Paul Geuthner, Paris, 1914.
  • L' Indo- Aryen du Veda aux temps modern, Adrien Maisonneuve, Paris, 1934 English Translation: Indo- Aryan from the Vedas to modern times, Adrien Maisonneuve, Paris, 1965
  • English Translation: The Grammatical Structure of Dravidian Languages, Deccan College, Pune in 1954
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