Michel Bréal

Michel Jules Alfred Bréal , born with Pram (Bavaria) the March 26th 1832 and died in Paris the November 25th 1915, is a linguist French, founder of the Sémantique.

Biography

It makes its studies with Weißenburg, Metz and Paris and enters in 1852 to the National university. In 1857, it studies the Sanskrit with Berlin near Franz Bopp, of which it translates later the Grammaire compared of the Indo-European languages , and the compared Linguistique near Albrecht Weber. He becomes then professor of grammar compared with the practical École of the high studies and with the Collège de France, of 1866 with 1905, where he has in particular as a pupil Antoine Meillet. He is elected in 1875 member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities and is named in 1879 inspector of higher education. He is made commander of the Légion of honor in 1890.

Michel Bréal is especially known to have been the founder of the Sémantique, whose it forged the term, with his Essai of semantics published in 1897. In addition to his linguistic work, one owes him several books on the Mythologie. He is the author also of Pamphlet S on education in France, the old language teaching and the reform of the Orthographe.

Lastly, Michel Bréal is the inventor of the modern marathon. It is him indeed which, in 1894, suggested with the baron Pierre de Coubertin introducing this test into the Olympic first modern Games in 1896.

Principal works

  • the Study of the origins of the religion Zoroastrienne (1862)
  • Hercules and Cacus (1863)
  • the Myth of Oedipus (1864)
  • the Tables Eugubines (1875)
  • Mixtures of mythology and linguistics (2 ED., 1882)
  • Lessons of words (1882, 1886)
  • Latin etymological Dictionary (1885)
  • Latin Grammar (1890)
  • Test of semantics (1897)
  • For better knowing Homère (1906)

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