Incubator escapee wiki

Louis Jacolliot

Article Discussion

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox writer

Louis Jacolliot (31 October 1837 – 30 October 1890) was a French barrister, colonial judge, author and lecturer.

BiographyEdit

Born in Charolles, Saône-et-Loire, he lived several years in Tahiti and India during the period 1865-1869.

Jacolliot's Occult science in India was written during the 1860s and published 1875 (English translation 1884). Jacolliot was searching for the "Indian roots of western occultism" and makes reference to an otherwise unknown Sanskrit text he calls Agrouchada-Parikchai, which is apparently Jacolliot's personal invention, a "pastiche" of elements taken from Upanishads, Dharmashastras and "a bit of Freemasonry".<ref>Introduction to Occult Science in India by Louis Jacolliot [1919] at sacred-texts.com by J. B. Hare, June 21, 2008.</ref> Jacolliot also expounds his belief in a lost Pacific continent, and was quoted on this by Helena Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled in support of her own Lemuria.

In Jacolliot's book {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (1869)<ref name=jacolliot1>L. Jacolliot (1869) La Bible dans l'Inde, Librairie Internationale, Paris (digitized by Google Books)</ref> (Template:Translation),<ref name=jacolliot>Louis Jacolliot (1870) The Bible in India, Carleton, New York (digitized by Google Books)</ref> he compares the accounts of the life of Bhagavan Krishna with that of Jesus Christ in the Gospels and concludes that it could not have been a coincidence, so similar are the stories in so many details in his opinion. He concludes that the account in the Gospels is a myth based on the mythology of ancient India. Jacolliot does not claim that Jesus was in India as some have claimed. "Christna" is his way of spelling "Krishna" and he wrote that Krishna's disciples gave him the name "Iezeus" which means "pure essence" in Sanskrit.<ref name=jacolliot/> However, Sanskrit philologist Max Müller confirmed that it is not a Sanskrit term at all and "it was simply invented" by Jacolliot.<ref>Max Müller (1888), Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute Volume 21, page 179</ref>

Jacolliot was successfully sued for defamation by Father Honoré Laval ss.cc, and ordered by the Supreme Court of the State of the Protectorate of the Society Islands to pay 15,000 francs in damages. It ordered the suppression of those portions of the pamphlet "La verité sur Tahiti" deemed defamatory, and further ordered that the judgement be printed in the official journal of the Protectorate in French, English, and Tahitian, as well as in three newspapers of the French colonies, three journals of Paris, and four gazettes of provinces of Laval's choosing.<ref name=Wellington>"Father Honore Laval and His Fellow-Laborers in the Pacific", Wellington Independent, Volume XXVII, Issue 3692, 31 December 1872, p. 3</ref>

He has been described as a prolific writer for his time.<ref>Voyage to the country of liberty: communal life in the United States, p. XI, Jacolliot, Paul Douglas, George Mccool</ref><ref>L. Sprague de Camp, Lost Continents, 1954 (First Edition), p. 58</ref> During his time in India he collected Sanskrit myths, which he popularized later starting in his {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (1874). Among other things, he claimed that Hindu writings (or unspecified "Sanskrit tablets") would tell the story of a sunken land called "Rutas" in the Indian Ocean. However, he relocated this lost continent to the Pacific Ocean and linked it to the Atlantis-myth. Furthermore, his "discovery" of Rutas is somehow similar to the origin of the Mu-Story.Template:Citation needed

Among his works is a translation of the Manu Smriti. This work influenced Friedrich Nietzsche: see Tschandala. Between 1867 and 1876, he also translated select verses of the Tirukkural, an ancient Tamil classic on ethics and morality.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

He died in Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes, Seine-et-Marne.

WorksEdit

See alsoEdit

Template:Portal

ReferencesEdit

Template:Reflist

Further readingEdit

  • Daniel Caracostea, Louis-François Jacolliot (1837 – 1890) : A biographical essay (1997)
  • Christian Gaillard, L'orientalisme anticlérical de Louis Jacolliot (1837 – 1890) (2001)
  • Koenraad Elst: Manu as a Weapon against Egalitarianism. Nietzsche and Hindu Political Philosophy, in: Siemens, Herman W. / Roodt, Vasti (Hg.): Nietzsche, Power and Politics. Rethinking Nietzsche’s Legacy for Political Thought, Berlin / New York 2008, 543-582.
  • Angelo Paratico The Karma Killers New York, 2010.

External linksEdit

Template:Sister project Template:Sister projectTemplate:Namespace detect

Template:Authority control

Retrieved from "https://zalansite.site/mediawiki/index.php?title=Louis_Jacolliot&oldid=777164"