10 October 1894 at Maisons-Laffitte. His elder brother, Arsène Darmesteter, was a distinguished philologist and man of letters. There is an éloge of James Darmesteter in the Journal asiatique (1894, vol. iv., pp. 519–534), and a notice by Henri Cordier, with a list of his writings, in The Royal Asiatic Society's Journal (January 1895); see also Gaston Paris, "James Darmesteter," in Penseurs et poètes (1896), (pp. 1–61). References External links Mary Boyce and D. N. MacKenzie, Encyclopaedia Iranica: https://iranicaonline.org/articles/darmesteter 1849 births 1894 deaths People from Moselle (department) 19th-century French Jews French orientalists Linguists from France French Iranologists Translators from Avestan 19th-century translators 19th-century French historians