Auguste Carrière (19 August 1838, Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux – 25 January 1902, Paris) was a linguist, grammarian and French historian, specializing in comparative grammar and

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. He was a professor at the

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in Paris, and was an advocate of

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studies, establishing an Armenian Chair at the school.

Publications

*''Grammaire arménienne'' (1883), édition corrigée et augmentée de celle de Max Lauer *''Un ancien glossaire latin-arménien'' (1886) *''Une version arménienne de l'histoire d'Asséneth'' (1886) *''La correspondance apocryphe de saint Paul et des Corinthiens, ancienne version latine et traduction du texte arménien'' (1891) *'' Moïse de Khoren et les généalogies patriarcales'' (1891) *''Nouvelles sources de Moïse de Khoren : Études critiques'' (1893) *''La légende d'Abgar dans l Histoire d'Arménie ''de Moïse de Khoren'' (1895) *''Les huit sanctuaires de l'Arménie païenne d'après Agathange et Moïse de Khoren, étude critique'' (1899).

Bibliography

Patrick Cabanel Patrick Cabanel (born 22 February 1961) is a French historian, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études and holder of the chair in ''Histoire et sociologie des protestantismes''. He mainly writes on the history of religious mi ...

, « Auguste Carrière », in Patrick Cabanel et André Encrevé (dir.), ''Dictionnaire biographique des protestants français de 1787 à nos jours'', tome 1 : A-C, Les Éditions de Paris Max Chaleil, Paris, 2015,

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