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Antoine Leonard De ChzyAntoine Leonard de Chzy (January 15, 1773 - 1832), was a French orientalist. He was born at Neuilly. His father, Antoine de Chzy (1718-1798), was an engineer who finally became director of the cole des Ponts et Chausses. The son was intended for his father's profession; but in 1709 he obtained a post in the oriental department of the national library. In about 1803, he began studying Sanskrit, though he possessed no grammar or dictionary, and succeeded in obtaining sufficient knowledge of the language to be able to compose poetry in it. He was the first professor of Sanskrit appointed in the College de France (1815), a chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur, and a member of the Acadmie des Inscriptions. Among his works were: - Medjouin et Leila (1807), from the Persian
- Yadjanadatta Badha (1814)
- La Reconnaissance de Sacountala (1830), from the Sanskrit
- L'Anthologie rotique d'Amrou (1831), published under the pseudonym d'Apudy.
See the Mmoires of the Acadmie des Inscriptions (new series, vol. xii.), where there is a notice of Chzy by Silvestre de Sacy. Chzy, Antoine Leonard de Chzy, Antoine Leonard de Chzy, Antoine Leonard de
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