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Delphine Menant
b. 1850
A French ethnologist and Orientalist, she is best remembered for her writing on the Parsi communities of India. Her work grew out of serious scholarly training and first-hand travel at the turn of the twentieth century.
3 Audiobooks
Les Parsis
by Delphine Menant
De monumenten van den Girnar
by Delphine Menant
Bij de Parsi's van Bombay en Gudsjerat
by Delphine Menant
About the author
Born in Cherbourg in 1850, Delphine Menant was a French ethnologist and Orientalist. She was the daughter of the Assyriologist Joachim Menant and studied under the noted scholar James Darmesteter, which helped shape her interest in Persian and religious history.
In 1900, she traveled to India on a mission connected with the Guimet Museum, where she studied Parsi life in Bombay and Gujarat. That research fed into her best-known work, Les Parsis, a study of the Zoroastrian communities of India that later appeared in English as The Parsis in India.
Menant died in Paris in 1932. Although she is not widely known today, her writing remains of interest to readers drawn to cultural history, religion, and early ethnographic accounts of South Asia.