BURNOUF, EUGENE (1801-1852), French orientalist, was born in Paris on April 8 1801, and died May 28 1852. He published in 1826 an Essai sur le Pali . . ., written in collabora tion with Christian Lassen; and in the following year Observations grammaticales sur quelques passages de l'essai sur le Pali. His next great work was the deciphering of the Zend manuscripts brought to France by Anquetil Duperron (q.v.). By his labours a knowledge of the Zend language was first brought into the scien tific world of Europe. He caused the Vendidad Sade, part of one of the books bearing the name of Zoroaster, to be lithographed with the utmost care from the Zend ms. in the Bibliotheque Nationale, and published it in folio parts, 1829-43. From 1833 to 1835 he published his Commentaire sur le Yacna, l'un des livres liturgiques des Parses; he also published the Sanskrit text and French translation of the Bhdgavata Purdna on histoire poetique de Krichna in three folio volumes (184o-47). His last works were Introduction a l'histoire du Bouddliisme indien (1844), and a translation of Le lotus de la bonne loi (1852).