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Orientalist scientist sinologist scholars
He was born at Orleans, France probably on the 13th of April 1797. Stanislas Julien, a mechanic of Orleans, had two sons, Noel, born on the 13th of April 1797, and Stanislas, born on the 20th of September 1799. It appears that the younger son died in America, and that Noel then adopted his brother's name.
He studied classics at the college de France. He attended the lectures of Abel Remusat on Chinese, and his progress was as rapid as it had been in other languages.
In 1821 was appointed assistant professor of Greek and published an edition of the Rape of Helen of Coluthus, with versions in French, Latin, English, German, Italian and Spanish.
From the first, as if by intuition, he mastered the genius of the language; and in 1824 he published a Latin translation of a part of the works of Mencius (Mang-tse), one of the nine classical books of the Chinese.
Soon afterwards he translated the modern Greek odes of Kalvos under the title of La Lyre patriotique de la Grece. But such works were not profitable in a commercial sense, and, being without any patrimony, Julien was glad to accept the assistance of Sir William Drummond and others, until in 1827 he was appointed sublibrarian to the French institute.
In 1832 he succeeded Remusat as professor of Chinese at the college de France. In 1833 he was elected a member of the Academie des Inscriptions in the place of the orientalist, Antoine Jean Saint-Martin.
For some years his studies had been directed towards the dramatic and lighter literature of the Chinese, and in rapid succession he now brought out translations of the Hoei-lan-ki (L'Histoire du cercle de crate), a drama in which occurs a scene curiously analogous to the judgment of Solomon; the Pih shay tsing ki; and the Tchao-chi kou eul, upon which Voltaire had founded his Orphelin de la Chine (1755).
With the versatility which belonged to his genius, he next turned, apparently without difficulty, to the very different style common to Taoist writings, and translated in 1835 "Le Livre des récompenses et des peines" of Lao-tsze. About this time the cultivation of silkworms was beginning to attract attention in France, and by order of the minister of agriculture Julien compiled, in 1837, a "Risume des principaux trait As chinois sur la culture des mUriers, et I'iducation des vers-d-soie", which was speedily translated into English, German, Italian and Russian.
Nothing was more characteristic of his method of studying Chinese than his habit of collecting every peculiarity of idiom and expression which he met with in his reading; and, in order that others might reap the benefit of his experiences, he published in 1841 "Discussions grammaticales sur certaines regies de position qui, en 'chinois, jouent le mime rdle que les inflexions dans les autres langues", which he followed in 1842 by Exercices pratiques d'analyse, de syntaxe, et de lexigraphie chinoise.
Meanwhile in 1839, he had been appointed joint keeper of the Bibliotheque royale, with the especial superintendence of the Chinese books, and shortly afterwards he was made administrator of the college de France. The facility with which he had learnt Chinese, and the success which his proficiency commanded, naturally inclined less gifted scholars to resent the impatience with which he regarded their mistakes, and at different times bitter controversies arose bet ween Julien and his fellow sinologues on the one subject which they had in common.
In 1842 appeared from his busy pen a translation of the Tao te King, the celebrated work in which Lao-tsze attempted to explain his idea of the relation existing between the universe and something which he called Tao, and on which the religion of Taoism is based. From Taoism to Buddhism was a natural transition, and about this time Julien turned his attention to the Buddhist literature of China, and more especially to the travels of Buddhist pilgrims to India. In order that he might better understand the references to Indian institutions, and the transcriptions in Chinese of Sanskrit words and proper names, he began the study of Sanskrit, and in 1853 brought out his Voyages du pelerin Hiouen-tsang, which is regarded by some critics as his most valuable work.
Six years later he published "Les Avadanas, contes et apologues indiens inconnus jusqu'à ce jour, suivis de poésies et de nouvelles chinoises. "
For the benefit of future students he disclosed his system of deciphering Sanskrit words occurring in Chinese books in his Méthode pour déchiffrer et transcrire les noms sanscrits qui se rencontrent dans les livres chinois (1861). This work, which contains much of interest and importance, falls short of the value which its author was accustomed to attach to it. It had escaped his observation that, since the translations of Sanskrit works into Chinese were undertaken in different parts of the empire, the same Sanskrit words were of necessity differently represented in Chinese characters in accordance with the dialectical variations. No hard and fast rule can therefore possibly be laid down for the decipherment of Chinese transcriptions of Sanskrit words, and the effect of this impossibility was felt though not recognized by Julien, who in order to make good his rule was occasionally obliged to suppose that wrong characters had by mistake been introduced into the texts.
His Indian studies led to a controversy with Joseph Toussaint Reinaud, which was certainly not free from the gall of bitterness. Among the many subjects to which he turned his attention were the native industries of China, and his work on the Histoire et fabrication de la porcelaine chinoise is likely to remain a standard work on the subject. In another volume he also published an account of the Industries anciennes et modernes de l'Empire chinois (1869), translated from native authorities.
His last work of importance was Syntaxe nouvelle de la langue Chinoise fondée sur la position des mots, suivie de deux traités sur les particules et les principaux termes de grammaire, d'une table des idiotismes, de fables, de légendes et d'apologues (1869), for many years the standard grammar for the Chinese language.
A more scientific arrangement and treatment of his subject would have added much to the value of this work, which, however, contains a mine of material which amply repays exploration. One great secret by which Julien acquired his grasp of Chinese, was, as we have said, his methodical collection of phrases and idiomatic expressions. Whenever in the course of his reading he met with a new phrase or expression, he entered it on a card which took its place in regular order in a long series of boxes. At his death, which took place on the 14th of February 1873, he left, it is said, 250, 000 of such cards, about the fate of which, however, little seems to be known.
He served as the Chair of Chinese at the College de France for over 40 years and also he was considered one of the most academically respected sinologists in French history.
In 1863 he was made a commander of the Legion of Honour in recognition of the services he had rendered to literature during the second empire.
In 1872 the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres established the Prix Stanislas Julien, an annual prize for a sinological work which was first awarded in 1875.
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In politics Julien was imperialist.
Notwithstanding his academic rigor and gifted intellect, Julien had a notoriously thorny personality and publicly feuded with most of his contemporaries
