Louis Bazin (20 December 1920 – 2 March 2011) was a French orientalist.

Biography

Born in Caen, he entered the

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in 1939. When he graduated in 1943, he became a senior research fellow at the

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, while continuing his studies at the National School for Modern Oriental Languages. In 1949, he became a professor-delegate after his teacher

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retired. In 1957, he became a full professor at the ENLOV (the above-mentioned Oriental Language School's new name). Since 1950, he has also been the director of studies at the

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(Section IV). Beginning in 1980, Bazin became a Professor at the University of Paris III. He retired from his position there in 1990. Bazin was a member of the

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(of which he was formerly vice-chairman). He was also a member of the International Union of Oriental and Asian Studies (of which he was formerly the treasurer, secretary general and vice-president), and the

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(elected 22 October 1993 to the chair Claude Cahen). He was Vice-Chairman of the Societas Uralo-Altaica, and was president of the section of Oriental Languages and Cultures of the

Bibliography

* 1950: ''Recherches sur les parlers t’o-pa'' - T’oung Pao (通報) * 1953: ''La déesse-mère chez les Turcs pré-islamiques'' - Bulletin de la Société Ernest Renan * 1959: ''Structures et tendances communes des langues turques'' - in Philologiae Turcicae Fundamenta * 1959: ''Le Turkmène, description grammaticale'' - ibid. * 1961: ''Y a-t-il en turc des alternances vocaliques ?'' - Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher * 1964: ''La littérature épigraphique turque ancienne'' - Philologiae Turcicae Fundamenta * 1964: ''Über die Sternkunde in alttürkischer Zeit'' - Abhandlungen der Mainzer Akademie * 1965: ''Aventures merveilleuses sous terre et ailleurs de Er-Töshtük le géant des steppes'', traduction du Kirghiz de Pertev Boratav, introduction et notes de Pertev Boratav et Louis Bazin, Gallimard, « Connaissance de l'Orient » * 1967: ''Mirza Fathali Akhoundov : Comédies'' (traduction annotée) * 1968, 1987: (3e ed.) ''Introduction à l’étude de la langue turque'' - Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient - Jean Maisonneuve, succ. * 1972: ''Un manuscrit chinois et turc runiforme de Touen-houang'' - Turcica * 1973: ''Cinquante ans d’orientalisme en France. « les études turques »'' - Journal asiatique * 1974: ''Les calendriers turcs anciens et médiévaux'' - thèse de doctorat * 1975: ''Makhtoumkouli Firaqui : Poèmes de Turkménie'' - traduction annotée, en collaboration avec Pertev Borarav * 1976: ''Eine Inschrift vom Obern Jenissei'' - Materialia turcica * 1985: ''La réforme des langues'' don't «La réforme linguistique en Turquie» (Hambourg, 1985)Turquie: La «Dil Devrimi» ou Révolution linguistique de Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
* 1989: ''L’épigraphie turque ancienne de Haute-Asie (VIII^e-XI^e s.) : Résultats et perspectives'' - CRAI * 1989: ''Er-Töshtük'' (with Pertev Boratav) * 1990: ''Où en est le comparatisme turco-mongol ?'' - Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris * 1991: ''Les systèmes chronologiques dans le monde turc ancien.'' - Bibliotheca orientalis hungarica * 1991: ''Manichéisme et syncrétisme chez les Ouïgours'' - Turcica * 1994: ''Les Turcs, des mots, des hommes, choix d’articles de Louis Bazin'' - recueil d’articles édité par Michèle Nicolas et Gilles Veinstein * 1994: ''État des discussions sur la pénétration du bouddhisme en milieu turc'' - Res Orientales. Hommages à Claude Cahen * 1995: ''Les noms de Dieu et du Prophète dans les premiers textes de la littérature turque islamique (XI^e s.)'' - Mélanges Philippe Gignoux * 1995: ''Un nom turco-mongol du « nombril » et du « clan »'' - Beläk Bitig. Festschrift G. Doerfer * 1995: ''Qui était Alp Er Tonga, identifié par les Turcs à Afrâsyâb ?'' - Pand-o-Sokhan. Mélanges offerts à Charles-Henri de Fouchécour * 1996: ''Survivances préislamiques dans l’épigraphie funéraire des Turcs musulmans'' - İslam Dünyasında Mezarlıklar ve Defin Gelenekleri * 1998: ''Le livre de Dede Korkut, Récit de la Geste oghuz'' - with Altan Gökalp - L’aube des peuples

References

External links

Site de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, page de Louis Bazin

Interview of French Turcologist Louis Bazin in 1994

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bazin, Louis French orientalists Turkologists 1920 births 2011 deaths Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Members of the Société Asiatique École Normale Supérieure alumni Academic staff of Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3 Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques Writers from Caen