A single French institution founded European Orientalist and comparative-linguistics scholarship

Evidence

Silvestre de Sacy, for example, was not only the first modern and institutional European Orientalist, who worked on Islam, Arabic literature, the Druze religion, and Sassanid Persia; he was also the teacher of Champollion and of Franz Bopp, the founder of German comparative linguistics. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 81

Categorization

• SHARE: The lineage De Sacy → Bopp → comparative linguistics → eventually structuralism is a surprisingly direct intellectual genealogy worth sharing with a philology or theory friend.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 81
• XREF: connects to: Eighteenth-century scholarship grounded European languages in an Oriental source — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 204; Institutional Orientalism originated in Britain and France, then the Germans refined it; Nineteenth-century Orientalism was born from comparative philology (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Eighteenth-century scholarship grounded European languages in an Oriental source — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 204; Institutional Orientalism originated in Britain and France, then the Germans refined it; Nineteenth-century Orientalism was born from comparative philology (+1 more)