Anquetil Duperron

Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe, brother of the foregoing, was born in 1731. Wishing to study Oriental languages, he enlisted in 1754 as a private in a regiment destined for India. He received his discharge and remained in the East for eight years. On his return to France he refused Government employment, and in independent poverty set about publishing the results of his labours, the chief of which were a translation of the Zend Avesta, and a version in Latin of a Persian translation of the Vedas. His knowledge, however, of Oriental dialects was very imperfect, and his works have now but little value. He died in 1805.