Émile Senart, a French scholar of Indian studies, rendered numerous Buddhist and Hindu texts into French, notably translating several Upanishads. He served as the president of the Société asiatique from 1908 to 1928 and established the "Association française des amis de l'Orient" in 1920. Senart held the position of professor at the Collège de France in Paris, where he taught courses related to Indian studies.