Name Victor Henry | Role Character actor | |
Died March 15, 1945, Hollywood, California, United States Movies Freaks, King of the Zombies, To Be or Not to Be, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Conquest of the Air Similar People Tod Browning, Jean Yarbrough, Maurice Elvey, Dwain Esper, Ernst Lubitsch | ||
Victor Henry ([ɑ̃ʁi]; 17 August 1850 in Colmar – 6 February 1907 in Sceaux was a French philologist, born at Colmar in Alsace.
Biography
Having held appointments at the University of Douai and the University of Lille, Henry was appointed professor of Sanskrit and comparative grammar at the University of Paris. A prolific and versatile writer, he is probably best known by the English translations of his Précis de Grammaire comparée de l'anglais et de l'allemand and Précis de Grammaire comparée du Grec et du Latin.
Important works by him on India and Indian languages are:
Native American languages (such as Siglit, Quechua, and Greenlandic) and minority languages of France (Lexique Étymologique du Breton moderne on Breton; Le Dialecte Alaman de Colmar on Alemannic) also claimed his attention.
Le Langage martien is a curious book. It contains a discussion of some 40 phrases (amounting to about 500 words), which a certain Mademoiselle Hélène Smith (a well-known spiritualist medium of Geneva), while on a hypnotic visit to the planet Mars, learnt and repeated and even wrote down during her trance as specimens of a language spoken there, explained to her by a disembodied interpreter.