Dear colleagues,

This is to corroborante the answer Rosane Rocher gave to the interesting question of  Dean Michael Anderson. 
It was indeed the other way round for those creations were the result  of an increasing aspiration to secularism («   laïcité »). It was specially the case, regarding the Ecole pratique des hautes études (EPHE),  with the creation, in 1886, of its 5h section, which was named section «des Sciences religieuses»  (and not «d'histoire des religions», for instance), for the issue was to provide a non-denominational teaching  of religious facts.  Moreover, under the aegis of Victor Duruy, the Minister of Education (Ministre de l’instruction publique), the credits allocated until then to the Faculties of Catholic Theology were transferred to the EPHE at the occasion of the creation of the section of Sciences religieuses, to the great displeasure, not surprisingly, of those Faculties.


Best,

Lyne



 


Le 27 juin 2021 à 15:25, Rosane Rocher via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> a écrit :

No, that was done by the government. The Arabist Silvestre de Sacy had long lobbied for them. 

Best,
Rosane

On 6/27/21 9:15 AM, Dean Michael Anderson via INDOLOGY wrote:
Were these the ones founded by the church to facilitate conversion to Christianity, as so many of those early positions were?

Best,

Dean

On Sunday, June 27, 2021, 2:56:15 PM GMT+5:30, Eli Franco <franco@uni-leipzig.de> wrote:





Yes, the two chairs, for Sanskrit and Chinese, were created at the same time.
Best wishes,
Eli



Zitat von Richard Mahoney via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>:

> Curious, I was just reading that Abel-Rémusat (1788--1832) secured the
> first chair in Chinese at the Collège de France, also in 1815;
> enviable time.
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> Dear colleagues,
> I just noticed a typo in my post. Please correct it: Chézy’s chair in
> Collège de France was created in 1815.
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> My very best,
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>> Le 25 juin 2021 à 23:52, Rosane Rocher via INDOLOGY
>> <indology@list.indology.info> a écrit :
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> It strikes me that I ought to have given some reason for my abrupt
>> warning against the English translation of Raymond Schwab'sOriental
>> Renaissance. Let me quote the introductory paragraph of the review I
>> gave it back in 1988:
>>
>> "Scholars interested in the East-West intellectual encounter will
>> welcome the publication of an English translation of Raymond
>> Schwab's "La Renaissance Orientale", a book that, though 34 years
>> old, has not been replaced. A look at the contents of this handsome
>> volume reveals useful added features, such as an alphabetical and
>> updated bibliography and a fuller and more readable index. A
>> thorough perusal of the English translation, however, turns elation
>> into disappointment. Not only was Schwab's difficult, poetic French
>> occasionally beyond the powers of the translators, their lack of
>> familiarity with Indian culture and Anglo-Indian history not
>> infrequently led them astray." 
>>
>> Examples are given in the core of the review. The full text can be
>> found in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 86.4, 1988, coll.
>> 471–473. 
>>
>> Rosane
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