Louis Étienne Joseph Marie de la Vallée Poussin
* 1.1.1869 (Liège / BE)
18.2.1938 (Uccle/Bruxelles)
Studied at the Université de Liège (1884-1888) : Docteur en philosophie et lettres (July 1888)
Studied at the Université Catholique de Louvain (1888-1891) : Docteur en langues orientales (July 1891)
Doctoral thesis : La doctrine du salut dans le bouddhisme postérieur
Professor at the Université de Liège (1891-1892) where he occupied the
chair of Sanskrit
Professor of 'Comparative grammar of Greek and Latin' and entitled to teach
Sanskrit in this course 'Langue et littérature sanscrites' at the Ghent
University (Belgium) from 1892 till 1930.
Member of the Académie royale de Belgique since 1910
Honourable member of the Royal Asiatic Society
Membre d'honneur de l'École fran‡aise d'Extrˆme-Orient
Doctor honoris causa of the Oxford University
He was a well known Indologist and a specialist of Sanskrit Buddhism.
Foto: R. N. Sardesai: Picturesque Orientalia
(Poona 1938)