Auguste Barth was a French

France

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 orientalist

Oriental studies

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Biography

He is best known by his work in connection with the religions of India

India

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. His volume, Les religions de l'Inde (Paris, 1879), was translated into English

English language

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 (London, 1882). Mention may also be made of his Inscriptions sanscrites du Cambodge (Sanskrit

Sanskrit

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 inscriptions of Cambodia

Cambodia

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; Paris, 1885) and of numerous monographs and reviews in Journal Asiatique, in Mélusine, and in the Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique. His annual reports on researches into the history of Indian religions, in Revue de l'Histoire des Religions (1880) are especially valuable. He was a member of the French Institute.