Garcin de Tassy

Who was Garcin de Tassy?

Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy was a French orientalist.

He studied under Silvestre de Sacy oriental languages and was awarded professorship for Indology at the School for Living Oriental Languages, that was founded for him. In 1838 he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. and was one of the founders and later president of the Société Asiatique.

Garcin first received prominence through general works on Islam and translations from the Arabic, namely L'Islamisme d'aprés le Coran, La poésie philosophique et religieuse chez les Persans and the Allégories, récits poétiques etc.. Later, he devoted himselft to the study of the Hindi language, where he was reputed as Europe's first capacity.