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JEAN AUGUSTE ULRIC SCHELER (1819-1890)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 316 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN AUGUSTE ULRIC See also:SCHELER (1819-1890)  , Belgian philologist, was See also:born at Ebnat, See also:Switzerland, in 1819 . His See also:father, a See also:German, was See also:chaplain to See also:King See also:Leopold I. of See also:Belgium, and See also:Jean See also:Scheler, after studying at See also:Bonn and See also:Munich, became King's librarian and See also:professor at the See also:Brussels See also:Free University . His investigations in See also:Romance See also:philology earned him a wide reputation . He died at Ixelles, Belgium, in 189o . The most important of his numerous philological See also:works are: Memoire sur la conjugaison fran4aise ccnsideree sous le rapport etymologique (Brussels, 1847), Dictionnaire d'etymologie fran4aise d'aprbs See also:les resultats de la See also:science moderne (Brussels, 1862), Etude sur la transformation francaise See also:des mots latins (See also:Ghent, 1869) . He also edited the See also:fourth edition of See also:Diez's Etymologisches Worterbuch der romanischen Sprachen (Bonn, 1878), and completed Grandgagnage's Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue wallonne (See also:Louvain, 188o) . He also published several See also:critical See also:editions of See also:middle ages texts, including one of Les Poesies de See also:Froissart (Brussels, 187o-1872), and a monograph Sur le sejour de l'apotre See also:saint See also:Pierre a See also:Rome (Brussels, 1845), which was translated into German and See also:English .

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