Jean Deny (12 July 1879 – 5 Novembre 1963) was a French grammarian, specialist of oriental languages.

Biography

Jean Deny was born to a French father and a Polish mother settled in Kiev. He became familiar with the French, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian languages at a young age. After the baccalaureate, he specialized in Oriental languages (

classical Arabic Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic () is the standardized literary form of Arabic used from the 7th century and throughout the Middle Ages, most notably in Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid literary texts such as poetry, e ...

, Arabic dialect, Persian, Turkish and Russian). He became professor of

Turkology Turkology (or Turcology or Turkic studies) is a complex of humanities sciences studying languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of people speaking Turkic languages and the Turkic peoples in chronological and comparative c ...

at the Sorbonne after he taught at the

École nationale des langues orientales vivantes Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (; ), abbreviated as INALCO, is a French Grand Etablissement with a specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. Its coverage spans languages of Central Europ ...

of which he was administrator from 1937 to 1948. He retired in 1949 and died in 1963.

Selected works

*1921: ''Grammaire de la langue turque (dialecte osmanli)'' *1955: ''Principes de grammaire turque'' *1959: ''L’osmanli moderne et le turk de Turquie''

References

External links

Jean Deny
on data.bnf.fr
Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Deny, Jean Linguists from France Turkologists Writers from Kyiv 1879 births 1963 deaths Academic staff of the University of Paris Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France