Suzanne Karpelès

Suzanne Karpelès
Autochrome portrait by Auguste Léon, 1920
Born(1890-03-17)17 March 1890
Paris, France
Died7 November 1968(1968-11-07) (aged 78)
Pondicherry, India
EducationÉcole pratique des hautes études
Alma materÉcole orientales, École Pratique des Hautes Études
OccupationsIndologist, Buddhist scholar
Years active1917–1968
EmployerFrench School of the Far East
Known forConservation and cataloguing of Cambodian Buddhist texts; founding Secretary-General of the Buddhist Institute of Cambodia
Notable workLokeçvaraçataka (translation, 1919); French translation of the Dhammapada (1960)

Suzanne Karpelès (17 March 1890 – 7 November 1968) was a French Indologist, who was a multilingual specialist in the languages and cultures of colonized French Indochina. She was the first curator of the Royal Library of Phnom Penh and suggested the founding of the Buddhist Institute of Cambodia where she served as the first secretary-general.

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