Frédéric Macler
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Born | Mandeure, France | 26 May 1869
Died | 12 July 1938 Montbéliard, France | (aged 69)
Nationality | French |
Occupation(s) | Linguist, orientalist, translator |
Frédéric Macler (26 May 1869 – 12 July 1938) was a French linguist, orientalist and translator.
A native of Mandeure,[1] Macler learned Armenian, Assyrian, and Hebrew from Auguste Carrière. In 1911, he succeeded Antoine Meillet, as he took a chair in Armenian at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, which he held until 1937. In 1919, he co-founded the Society for Armenian Studies. In 1920, he founded the Revue des Études Arméniennes, which he directed until 1933, with Antoine Meillet.[2]
His works include a French translation of the Arabic Vision of Daniel.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "N 1855-1893: 118/358". Departmental archives of Doubs (in French).
- ^ Mahé, Jean-Pierre (1983). "Ռևյու դեզ էթյուդ Արմենիեն" [Revue des Études Arméniennes]. Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences. 9: 649.
- ^ Macler, Frédéric (1904). "L'apocalypse arabe de Daniel: publiée, traduite et annotée". Revue de l'histoire des religions. 49: 265–305.