Quotes:Barth, Auguste

Zirkoff, Boris

Barth, Marie Étienne Auguste. French Orientalist, b. Meh. 22, 1834, at Strassburg; d. Apr. 15, 1916, at Paris. Educated in native city which he left after war of 1870. Collaborated on the Revue Critique, 1872. Authority in the field of Indology. Reputation established by his Religions de l’Inde (orig. publ. in the Encyclopédie des Sciences Religieuses), Paris, G. Fischbacher, 1879 (*The Religions of India, trans, by Rev. J. Wood, rev. and augm. by the author. London: Triibner and Co., 1882. 8vo), a work of remarkable lucidity, scholarship and nobility of conception. Edited, 1885, Aymonier’s work, Inscriptions Sanscrites recueillies au Cambodge. One of the chief collaborators of the Revue de l’Histoire des Religions. Collected Oeuvres publ. in 2 vols., 1914.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 5, p. 370