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MICHEL JULES See also: born on the 26th of See also: March 1832, at
See also: Landau in Rhenish See also: Bavaria, of French parents
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After studying at See also: Weissenburg, See also: Metz and See also: Paris, he entered the Ecole Normale in 1852
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In 1857 he went to Berlin, where he studied See also: Sanskrit under See also: Bopp and Weber
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On his return to See also: France he obtained an See also: appointment in the department of See also: oriental See also: MSS. at the Bibliotheque Imperiale
.
In 1864 he became professor of See also: comparative grammar at the See also: College de France, in 1875 member of the Academie See also: des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, in 1879 inspecteurgeneral of public instruction for higher See also: schools until the abolition of the office in 1888
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In 1890 he was made See also: commander of the See also: Legion of Honour
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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 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 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)
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His Essai de Semantique (1897), on the signification of words, has been translated into See also: English by Mrs H
.
Cust with 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 orthography
.
In 1906 he published Pour mieux connaitre Homere
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