and represents the first European language translation of a sacred book of Hinduism, albeit in an approximate rendering. Anquetil-Duperron's commentaries make up half the work. The Latin version was the initial introduction of the Upanishadic thought to Western scholars, although, according to Paul Deussen, the Persian translators had taken great liberties in their rendering of the original Sanskrit text and at times changed the meaning. A 108-page French paraphrase of Duperron's Oupneck'hat by Jean-Denis Lanjuinais appeared in Millin de Grandmaison's Magasin Encyclopédique of 1805. Arthur Schopenhauer encountered Anquetil-Duperron's s in the spring of 1814 and repeatedly called it not only his favorite book but the work of the entire world literature that is most worthy of being read. In India, Anquetil-Duperron's Oupnek'hats precipitated a revival in the study of the Upanishads. Political and institutional activity When the Institut de France was reorganised, Anquetil-Duperron was voted in as a member but soon resigned. In 1804, he refused to swear allegiance to Napoleon, stating that "his obeisance [was] to the laws of the government under which he lived and which protected him."apud Death Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron died in Paris on 17 January 1805. His work became one of the most important references for nineteenth-century spiritualists and occultists in France. Notes References <references> <ref name=EB9>{{citation |contribution=Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron |title=''Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. II |editor-last=Baynes |editor-first=Thomas Spencer |display-editors=0 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |location=New York |date=1878 |ref= |pages=90–91 }}.</ref> </references> . . External links .Oupnek'hat, id est, Secretum tegendum, tome I at Google BooksOupnek'hat, id est, Secretum tegendum, tome II at Google Books "Anquetil-Duperron" at Encyclopaedia Iranica'' 1731 births 1805 deaths French Indologists French orientalists Linguists from France French Iranologists Corresponding members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres French translators Translators from Avestan French male non-fiction writers French expatriates in India 18th-century French translators