Paul Boyer (1864 – 1 October 1949) was a French

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. He inaugurated the chair of Russian language at the

Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales ( en, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations), abbreviated as INALCO, is a French university specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. ...

of Paris in 1891. Administrator of the school from 1908 to 1936, in 1921 he founded the ''

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'' with

Antoine Meillet Paul Jules Antoine Meillet (; 11 November 1866 Moulins, France – 21 September 1936 Châteaumeillant, France) was one of the most important French linguists of the early 20th century. He began his studies at the Sorbonne University, where he wa ...

and . The linguist was among his students.

Main publications

*''Manuel pour l'étude de la langue russe, textes accentués, commentaire grammatical, remarques diverses en appendice, lexique'', avec Nikolaï Vasilevitch Speranskiĭ, Armand Colin, Paris, 1905 ; 1935 ; 1951 ; 1957 ; 1967 *''Chez Tolstoï, entretiens à Iasnaïa Poliana'', Institut d'études slaves de l'Université de Paris, Paris, 1950

External links

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''Discours prononcé sur la tombe de M. Alexis Rostand, président honoraire du Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyer, Paul Linguists from France Slavists 1864 births People from Indre-et-Loire 1949 deaths