{{short description|French indologist and translator}} {{Expand French|topic=bio|Alexandre Langlois|date=April 2012}} '''Alexandre Langlois''' ({{IPA|fr|alɛksɑ̃dʁ lɑ̃ɡlwa}}; 4 August 1788, in Paris – 11 August 1854, in Nogent-sur-Marne) was a French Indologist and translator.
He taught classes at the Lycée Charlemagne, then worked as ''inspecteur'' at the Académie de Paris. He was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.<ref>[http://data.bnf.fr/10701650/alexandre_langlois/ Alexandre Langlois (1788-1854)] data.bnf.fr</ref>
== Selected works == * ''Chefs-d'oeuvre du théatre indien'' (translated from Sanskrit into English by Horace Hayman Wilson, then translated from English into French by Langlois, 1828) – Masterpieces of the Indian theater. * ''Harivansa ou Histoire de la famille de Hari'' (translation of Sanskrit, 1834–35) – Harivamsa, family history of Hari. * ''Rig-Véda : ou livre des hymnes'' (translation of Sanskrit; 2nd edition, 1872) – Rigveda; book of hymns.<ref>[http://www.idref.fr/074284592 Langlois, Alexandre (1788-1854)] IdRef.fr / SUDOC (bibliography)</ref> * [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Transmigration_of_the_Seven_Brahmans.html?id=PsVknIqncugC ''The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans''] by Henry David Thoreau, an English translation from Langlois' ''Harivansa''; edited by Arthur Christy (1972).
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