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MICHEL JULES ALFRED BREAL (1832— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 481 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICHEL JULES See also:ALFRED See also:BREAL (1832— )  , See also:French philologist, was See also:born on the 26th of See also:March 1832, at See also:Landau in Rhenish See also:Bavaria, of French parents . After studying at See also:Weissenburg, See also:Metz and See also:Paris, he entered the Ecole Normale in 1852 . In 1857 he went to See also:Berlin, where he studied See also:Sanskrit under See also:Bopp and See also:Weber . On his return to See also:France he obtained an See also:appointment in the See also:department of See also:oriental See also:MSS. at the Bibliotheque Imperiale . In 1864 he became See also:professor of See also:comparative See also:grammar at the See also:College de France, in 1875 member of the Academie See also:des See also:Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, in 1879 inspecteurgeneral of public instruction for higher See also:schools until the abolition of the See also:office in 1888 . In 1890 he was made See also:commander of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour . Among his See also:works, which See also:deal mainly with mythological and philological subjects, may be mentioned: L' Etude des origines de la See also:religion Zoroastrienne (1862), for which a See also:prize was awarded him by the Academie des Inscriptions; Hercule et Cacus (1863), in which he disputes the principles of the symbolic school in the See also:interpretation of myths; Le Mythe d'CEdipe (1864); See also:Les Tables Eugubines (1875); Melanges de mythologie et de linguistique (2nd. ed., 1882); Lecons de mots (1882, 1886), Dictionnaire etymologique latin (1885) and Grammaire latine (1890) . His Essai de Semantique (1897), on the signification of words, has been translated into See also:English by Mrs H . Cust with See also:preface by J . P . Postgate . His See also:translation of Bopp's Comparative Grammar (1866-1874), with introductions, is highly valued .

He has also written See also:

pamphlets on See also:education in France, the teaching of See also:ancient See also:languages, and the reform of French See also:orthography . In 1906 he published Pour mieux connaitre Homere .

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