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Synopsis

Joseph Héliodore Sagesse Vertu Garcin de Tassy ( 1794 – 1878) was a French orientalist. He studied oriental languages under Silvestre de Sacy and was awarded professorship for Indology at the School for Living Oriental Languages, that was founded for him. In 1838 he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres where he was one of the founders and later president of the Société Asiatique.
Garcin first received prominence through general works on Islam and translations from the Arabic, namely L’Islamisme d’aprés le Coran. Later, he devoted himself to the study of the Urdu/Hindi language.
Lorenz, II, 390.