Rial, Julien Girard de

Julien Girard de Rialle ( fr. Julien Girard de Rialle ; September 27, 1841 , Paris - November 23, 1904 , Santiago ) - French ethnographer .

Since 1882, director of the archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1885 and 1886 was the French plenipotentiary in distinguishing between Franco-Portuguese and Franco-Spanish possessions in Africa . Major works: "Agni dans le Veda et l'Avesta" ( 1869 ); Les Dieux du vent ( 1873 ); "De l'Antropophagie, étude d'ethnologie comparée" ( 1875 ); "Sur l'Asie centrale, son histoire, ses populations" ( 1875 ); "La Mythologie comparée" ( 1878 ); "Nos Ancêtres" ( 1883 ). Popular writings of Julien: Les Peuples de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique ( 1880 ) and Les Peuples de l'Asie et de l'Europe ( 1881 ) in the Bibliothèque utile.