La Vallée Poussin, L.

FirstName / namefirst	Louis
LastName / namelast	La Vallée Poussin
namemiddle	Étienne
bio	Louis Étienne Joseph Marie de La Vallée Poussin was born on 1. January, 1869 in Liège, where he received his early education. He studied at the University of Liege from 1884 to 1888, receiving his doctorate at the age of nineteen. He studied Sanskrit, Pali, and Avestan under Charles de Harlez and Philippe Colinet from 1888 to 1890 at the University of Leuven, receiving a docteur en langues orientales in July 1891. Moving to Paris, he began his studies at the Sorbonne that same year under Victor Henri and Sylvain Lévi. During this time (1891-1892), he also occupied the chair of Sanskrit at the University of Liege. He continued his study of Avestan and the Zoroastrian Gathas under Hendrik Kern at Leiden University, where he also took up the study of Chinese and Tibetan. In 1893, he attained a professorship at the University of Ghent teaching comparative grammar of Greek and Latin, a position which he held until his retirement in 1929. Louis de La Vallée Poussin died in Brussels on 18 February, 1938. Source
YearBirth	1869
YearDeath	1938
BornIn	Liège, Belgium
languageprimary	French
languagetranslation	Sanskrit
languagetarget	French
affiliation	University of Ghent; University of Liège
phduniversity	University of Louvain
education	University of Louvain, Doctorate University of Paris Leiden University
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Louis Étienne Joseph Marie de La Vallée-Poussin
editor and translator, 1869-1938

Downloadable Works

• Selected Works on archive.org
• The way to Nirvana : six lectures on ancient Buddhism as a discipline of salvation on archive.org