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Victor HenryVictor Henry (1850 - 1907), French philologist, was born at Colmar in Alsace. Having held appointments at Douai and Lille, he was appointed professor of Sanskrit and comparative grammar in the university of Paris. A prolific and versatile writer, he is probably best known by the English translations of his Prcis de Grammaire compare de l'anglais et de l'allemand and Prcis ... du Grec et du Latin. Important works by him on India and Indian languages are: - Manuel pour tudier le Sanscrit vdique (with Abel Bergaigne, 1890)
- Elements de Sanscrit classique (1902)
- Prcis de grammaire plie (1904)
- Les littratures de l'Inde: sanscrit, pli, prcrit (1904)
- La Magie dans l'Inde antique (1904)
- Le Parsisme (1905)
- L'Agni,ftoma (1906)
Obscure languages (such as Innok, Quechua, Greenland) and local dialects (Lexique tymologique du Breton modern; Le Diaiecte Alaman de Colmar) also claimed his attention. Le Langage Martien is a curious book. It contains a discussion of some 40 phrases (amounting to about 500 words), which a certain Mademoiselle Hlne Smith (a well-known spiritualist medium of Geneva), while on a hypnotic visit to the planet Mars, learnt and repeated and even wrote down during her trance as specimens of a language spoken there, explained to her by a disembodied interpreter.
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