Agnès Lenepveu-Hotz
- KHAYYAM, OMAR vi. FRENCH TRANSLATIONS OF THE
Omar Khayyam’s Arabic treatise on algebra, Maqāla fi’l-jabr wa’l-moqābala (see KHAYYAM xiv. AS MATHEMATICIAN), translated by Franz Woepcke (1826-64) as…
- MOHL, JULIUS
MOHL, JULIUS (Fr., Jules Mohl), German orientalist, editor and translator of the Šāh-nāma, and professor of Persian at the Collège…
- HAFEZ XV. TRANSLATIONS OF HAFEZ IN FRENCH
The first work in French to mention Hafez was Les six voyages written by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (q.v.; 1605-89) in 1676, in which Tavernier described Hafez’s tomb (see HAFEZ xiv). The first translation of one of his poems into French appeared in the Voyages (1686, repr., 1711) of Jean…
- GARCIN DE TASSY
GARCIN DE TASSY, JOSEPH-HÉLIODORE SAGESSE VERTU (b. Marseille, 20 January 1794/d. Paris, 2 September 1878; Figure 1), French scholar of…