Quotes:Maury, Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred

Zirkoff, Boris

Maury, Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred. French scholar, b. at Meaux, March 23, 1817; d. at Paris, Feb. 12, 1892. Studied jurisprudence, medicine, several Oriental languages, classical archaeology and a number of modern European tongues; served at the Royal Library, 1840; acted as secretary to Count de Clarac, 1841; app. asst, librarian of the Institute; collaborated with Guigniaut on the French transi, of Creuzer’s writings (see Guigniaut). Elected to the Académie des Inscriptions, 1857. Appointed, i860, Librarian of the Tuileries, by Napoleon III whom he assisted on his History of Caesar. From the same year, occupied until his death the chair of history at the Collège de France. App. director-general of the Archives of the Empire, 1868. Distinguished by his amazing memory, universal inquisitiveness, and remarkable faculties of assimilating knowledge, as well as by his liberal ideas for which he was persecuted by the Church; voluminous writer and first-class scholar. Chief Works: Croyances et légendes du moyen-âge. Paris: H. Champion, 1896. 8vo.—La terre et l’homme. Paris: L. Hachette, 1854, 1891.—*Histoire des religions de la Grèce antique, etc. Paris: Libr. philos, de Ladrange, 1857-59. 3 vols. 8vo.— La Magie et 383 l'Astrologie dans l'antiquité et au moyen-âge. Paris: Didier & Co., 1860, 1864.—Croyances et légendes de l'antiquité. Paris: Didier & Co., 1863, 1868.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, pp. 382-383