Quotes:Littré, Émile

Zirkoff, Boris

Littré, Maximilien Paul Émile. French lexicographer and philosopher, b. at Paris, Feb. 1, 1801; d. June 2, 1881. Educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Studied modem languages, classical and Sanskrit literature and philology. Taught the Classics and became director of the National to which he contributed a great many articles. At first a disciple of Comte, he popularized his ideas, but diverged from them at a later period. Took part in the revolution of July, 1848. After the siege of Paris in 1871, entered political life as a member of the Senate at Versailles. In 1844 he began his great Dictionnaire de la langue française (1844-1873), a work of sound scholarship. Other works: Paroles de la philosophie positive, Paris, 1859.—*Auguste Comte et la philosophie positive, 2nd ed., Paris, 1864.—OEuvres completes d’Hippocrate, Paris, 1839-69, in ten volumes, the only complete translation of the Hippocratic Collection extant.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 514

Littre, Maximilien Paul Emile (1801-1881). See Vol. Ill, p. 514, for biographical data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 656