Quotes:Guigniaut, Joseph-Daniel

Zirkoff, Boris

Guigniaut, Joseph-Daniel. French Hellenist and archaeologist, b. at Paray-le-Monial, May 15, 1794; d. at Paris, March 12, 1876. After extensive studies, became professor at the Lycée Charlemagne; app. director of conferences at the École Normale, 1818; became director of the latter, 1830. Occupied the chair of geography at the Univ, of Paris from 1835; became permanent secretary of the Académie des Inscriptions, 1860. Chief work: *Religions de l’antiquité considérées principalement dans leurs formes symboliques et mythologiques. Paris, 1825. This monumental work in 10 vols, represents an annotated and expanded translation of the Symbolik of Franz Creuzer, and remains authoritative as far as the exterior aspect of religions is concerned.—De la Théogonie d’Hésiode. Paris: Régnoux & Co., 1835.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, p. 373