Louis Bazin

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Louis Bazin (born December 20, 1920) is a French orientalist.

[edit] Biography

Born in Caen, he joined the Ecole Normale Superieure de la rue d'Ulm in 1939. When he left the school in 1943, he became a senior research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique, while continuing his studies at l'École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes.

In 1949, he became a professor delegate after his teacher Jean Deny retires. In 1957, he became a full professor at the ENLOV (later National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures, INALCO). Since 1950, he has also been the director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Section IV). Beginning in 1980, Bazin became a Professor at the University of Paris III. He retired from his position there in 1990.

Bazin is a member of the Asian Society (of which he was formerly vice-chairman). He is 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 Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres (elected 22 October 1993 to chair Claude Cahen). He is currently Vice-Chairman of the Societas Uralo-Altaica, and president of the local branch of Oriental Languages and Cultures of CNRS.