According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

* Émile Benveniste ( 1902 – 1976 )

Jacques Benveniste ( March 12, 1935 – October 3, 2004 ) was a French immunologist.

* Larry Benveniste – Dean of Goizueta Business School, Asa G. Candler Professor of Finance

Don Joseph Nasi ( or Nassi ; also known as João Miques / Micas and Don João Migas Mendes in a Portuguese variant, Giuseppe Nasi in Italian, and as Yasef Nassi in Ottoman Turkish ; 1524, Portugal – 1579, Constantinople ) was a Jewish diplomat and administrator, member of the House of Mendes / Benveniste, and a nephew of Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi, and influential figure in the Ottoman Empire during the rules of both Sultan Suleiman I and his son Selim II.

Among the early sources are the Keneset ha-Gedolah (" Men of the Great Assembly ") of Rabbi Hayyim Benveniste ( 1603 – 73 ) and the Magen Avraham (" Shield of Abraham ") of Avraham Gombiner ( 1635 – 83 ).

* Joshua ben Israel Benveniste ( c. 1590 – c. 1668 ), Physician and rabbi in Constantinople

* Chaim Benveniste ( 1603 – 1673 ), Brother of Joshua, rabbinical authority at Constantinople and later at Smyrna.

* Asa Benveniste ( 1925 – 1990 ), American poet

* Émile Benveniste ( 1902 – 1976 ), French structural linguist

* Jacques Benveniste ( 1935 – 2004 ), French immunologist

Another poet buried here is the American expatriate Asa Benveniste, also notable as the founding publisher of the Trigram Press.

Émile Benveniste argued that the pronouns " I " and " you " are fundamentally distinct from other pronouns because of their role in creating the subject.

The internal reconstruction of the Indo-European proto-language done by Benveniste and Lehmann has set Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ) typologically quite apart from its daughters.

Time magazine reported in 1999 that, in response to skepticism from physicist Robert Park, Josephson had challenged the American Physical Society ( APS ) to oversee a replication by Benveniste, using " a randomized double-blind test ", of his claimed ability to transfer the characteristics of homeopathically diluted water over the Internet.

Thus, Moses Benveniste mentions a certain Obadiah who wandered from Germany to Turkey in 1654 and changed his name to Moses because the former name was unusual.

Far from Toledo was awarded in 2002 the Alberto Benveniste annual prize of the Sorbonne, while his novel Farewell Shanghai received the Jean Monnet Prize of European literature in 2004.

Benveniste, also Benvenist ( in Catalonia ), Benvenisti, Benvenista, Benvenisto, Ben-Veniste, Beniste ( in North Africa ) ( Spanish bien venida = welcome ) is the surname of an old, noble, rich, and scholarly Jewish family of Narbonne, France from the 11th century.

The son of Isaac Benveniste Nasi ( prince ) the physician of the king of Aragon that came to Spain from Narbonne France in the 12th century.

They appear together with the name Benveniste in documents of Narbonne and Barcelona from the 11th-13th century AD with the name Nasi added.

Francisco Mendes | Benveniste directed, along with his brother Diogo Mendes ( Meir Benveniste ), from Lisbon and later from Antwerpen, a powerful trading company and a bank of world repute with agents across Europe and around the Mediterranean.

Indirect information point to his origin as a marano that converted back to Judaism and possibly as a member of the Mendes | Benveniste family from Venice ( see Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi ).

* Don Vidal Benveniste From Aragon settled in Constantinople after the expulsion from Spain in 1492.

Following Ambrosius Frobenius's publication of most of the Talmud in installments in Basel, Immanuel Benveniste published the whole Talmud in installments in Amsterdam 1644-1648, Though according to Raphael Rabbinovicz the Benveniste Talmud may have been based on the Lublin Talmud and included many of the censors ' errors.

Sabbatai had many prominent rabbis as followers, including Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, Moses Raphael de Aguilar, Moses Galante, Moses Zacuto, and the above-mentioned Hayyim Benveniste.

* Francisco Mendes ( Tzemah Benveniste in Hebrew ) one of the wealthiest traders and bankers in Europe in the first half of the 16th century.

On 3 September 1988 Channel 4 broadcast an After Dark television discussion featuring Benveniste, James Randi and Walter Stewart among others ( including Jonathan Miller ), reviewed the following week by Sean French in the New Statesman.

Benveniste invited them to design a double blind procedure, which they did, and conducted three more attempts.

as Roman Jakobson or Emile Benveniste have used mostly an opposition between the first two of them but White refers to an earlier classification, adopted by Giambattista Vico and contrasts metaphor with irony.

Afterwards, all converted Jews and their descendants would be referred to as " New Christians ", and they were given a grace period of thirty years in which no inquiries into their faith would be allowed ; this was later extended to end in 1534 .< Ref > Arthur Benveniste.

He was the grandson of Isaac ben Reuben of Barcelona and cousin of Jonah Gerondi ( the Rabbeinu Yonah ); possibly his brother was Benveniste de Porta, the bailie of Barcelona.

He may also fined, but this was lifted as a favor to Benveniste de Porta, who according to some authorities ( Graetz Gesschichte der juden Vol.

Zevi and his adherents retorted by deposing him and forcing him to leave the city, and his office was given to his colleague, Hayyim Benveniste, at that time one of Sabbetai's followers.

He deposed the old rabbi of Smyrna, Aaron Lapapa, and appointed Chaim Benveniste in his place.

Both Benveniste and Dumézil have argued that the Iguvine triads are just another testimony of their three functional hypothesis of IE religion.

Edité ‚ et traduit d ' après les textes sogdien, chinois et tibétain par Robert Gauthiot et Paul Pelliot, 2 vols ( avec la collaboration de E. Benveniste ), Paris, 1920.

She refers in the dissertation to sources that would influence and reappear in her later writing, including the work of Søren Kierkegaard, Emile Benveniste, Roman Jakobson, Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Mary Douglas, Paul Ricoeur, and Julia Kristeva.

Today Meillet is remembered as the mentor of an entire generation of linguists and philologists who would become central to French linguistics in the twentieth century, such as Émile Benveniste, Georges Dumézil, and André Martinet.

Émile Benveniste ( 27 May 1902, Aleppo, Syria3 October 1976, Paris ) was a French Jewish structural linguist, semiotician, an apprentice of Antoine Meillet and his successor, who, in his later years, was converted to the structuralist view of language through the work of Ferdinand de Saussure, although he was unwilling to agree with it at first, being a convinced follower of the sociological stance of his teacher.

In Chapter 5, Animal Communication and Human Language, Benveniste refutes behaviourist linguistic interpretations by demonstrating that human speech, unlike the so-called languages of bees and other animals, cannot be merely reduced to a stimulus-response system.

In essence, this distinction moved Benveniste to see language itself as a " discursive instance "-fundamentally as discourse.

The concept was proposed by Jacques Benveniste to explain the purported therapeutic powers of homeopathic remedies, which are prepared by diluting solutions to such a high degree that not even a single molecule of the original substance remains in most final preparations.

Benveniste sought to prove this basic tenet of homeopathy by conducting an experiment to be published " independently of homeopathic interests " in a major journal.

This work was continued by Emile Benveniste after Gauthiot's death.