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'''Jean Filliozat''' (4 November 1906 in [[Paris]] – 27 October 1982 in Paris) was a French writer. He studied medicine and was a physician between 1930 and 1947. He learned [[Sanskrit]], [[Pāli|Pali]], [[Standard Tibetan|Tibetan]] and [[Tamil language|Tamil]]. He wrote some important works on the history of Indian medicine. He taught at [[Collège de France]] from 1952 to 1978.

==Biography==
Jean Filliozat became a medical doctor in 1930, and was awarded a diploma from the [[École pratique des hautes études]] in 1934. In 1935 he was awarded a diploma by the [[Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales]]. He was director of studies at the ''École pratique des hautes études'' from 1941 to 1978. He established the [[French Institute of Pondicherry|Institut Français d'Indologie]] at [[Pondicherry (city)|Pondicherry]] in 1955 and was at the same time director of the [[École française d'Extrême-Orient|École Française d'Extrême Orient]] from 1956 until 1977. He became a member of the [[Academie]] in 1966 and vice president of the [[Societe Asiatique]] in 1974.

He was a member of the [[Legion d'honneur]].

==Works==
* ''Magie et médecine,'' Paris, P.U.F., 1943, vil-147 p. (Collection mythes et Religions).
* ''Fragments de textes koutchéens de médecine et de magie,'' Paris, Adrien Maisonneuve, 1948, 157 p., 8 pl.h.t.
* ''La Doctrine classique de la médecine indienne. Ses origines et ses parallèles grecs,'' Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1949 (2e édition, Paris, Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient, 1975). English translation: ''The classical Doctrine of Indian medicine. Its origins and its Greek parallels.'' Translated from the original in French by Dev Raj Chanana, New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1964.
* ''Yogasataka.'' {{Lang|fr|Texte médical attribué à Nagarjuna. Textes sanskrit et tibétain, traduction française, notes, indices, [[Pondicherry (city)|Pondicherry]]: Institut Français d'Indologis}}, 1979, XL-207 p.
*(en coll. avec L. Renou et al.),'' L'Inde classique.'' Manuel des études indiennes, t. 1, Paris, Payot, 1949 ; t. 2, Paris, EFEO, 1953, [réimpr. régulièrement].
*''Studies in Asokan Inscriptions'', translated by R. K. Menon, Calcutta, Indian Studies Past and Present. 1967
*''Un texte de la religion kaumâra.'' Le Tirumurukârrupatai, Pondicherry: Institut français d'indologie (PIFI, 49).1973
*(en coll. avec J. André), ''L'Inde vue de Rome.'' Textes latins de l'antiquité relatifs à l'Inde, textes, trad. et comm., Paris, Les Belles Lettres. 1986
* ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=2av2SuI8PpoC Religion, Philosophy, Yoga: A Selection of Articles]''

==External links==
*[http://www.efeo.fr/biographies/notices/filliozat.htm Biography in french]
*[http://ayurveda.france.free.fr/activites/filliozat.htm Another biography in french]

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[[Category:Linguists from France]]
[[Category:Historians of science]]
[[Category:French Indologists]]
[[Category:Writers from Paris]]
[[Category:Collège de France faculty]]
[[Category:Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres]]
[[Category:Members of the Société Asiatique]]
[[Category:Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur]]
[[Category:Tamil scholars of non-Tamil background]]
[[Category:1906 births]]
[[Category:1982 deaths]]
[[Category:20th-century linguists]]

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