Quotes:Regnaud, Paul

Zirkoff, Boris

Regnaud, Paul. French philologist, b. at Mantoche (Haûte-Saône), April 19, 1838; d. 1910. Educated at home; worked in the ironworks of Fraisans (Jura), from 1856 on; managed commercial house at Sèvre, 1865. Passionately devoted to philological studies; attended course at the École des Hautes Études, Paris, then recently founded, 1868; received diploma, 1873, as a result of thesis: Exposé chronologique et systématique de la doctrine des principaux Upanishads (Paris, 1874-76). Appointed, 1879, head of conferences at the Faculty of Literature at Lyons; held since 1887 chair of Sanskrit and comparative Grammar in that city.

Works: La Rhétorique sanscrite, Paris, 1884.—*Matériaux pour servire à l'histoire de la philosophie de l'Inde. Paris: F. Vieweg, 1876-78. — Origine et philosophie du language. 2nd ed., Paris: Fischbacher, 1888.—Origines de la mythologie Indo-Européenne. Paris, 1892, and many other studies.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 6, p. 444