Sylvain Lévi (Paris, March 28, 1863 - Paris, October 30, 1935) was a French Orientalist and Indian.
Lévi became a lecturer at the higher education school in Paris in 1886 and lectured in Sanskrit at the University of Paris Sorbonne from 1889 to 1894. He wrote a large number of works, including his doctoral thesis Théâtre Indien in 1890 that a standard work on this topic became. He became professor of the Collège de France in 1894 and stayed this until 1935.
He traveled through India and Japan in 1897 and 1898 and early 1900 by Nepal. He traveled more often to the Orient, including to East Asia in 1921 to 1923
Lévi made one of the first analyzes of Tochaar language fragments found in Eastern Turkestan. This work he did with the French linguist Antoine Meillet.
He was one of the early opponents of the traditionalist writer René Guénon and an uncritical belief in the Philosophia perennis.
The tibetologists Joeri Rjorich and Paul Pelliot belonged to his students.
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