Michel Breal
Michel Jules Alfred Breal, born in Landau ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) on 26 March 1832 and died in Paris on 25 November 1915 , is a linguist French, founder of the semantics.
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Biography
He studied in Wissembourg , Metz and Paris and between in 1852 at the Ecole Normale Superieure. In 1857 , he studied Sanskrit at Berlin with Franz Bopp , which he later translated the Comparative Grammar of Indo-European and comparative linguistics with of Albrecht Weber. He then became professor of comparative grammar at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and the College de France , from 1866 to 1905 , where he was for disciples Antoine Meillet and James Darmesteter. He was elected in 1875 member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres and named in 1879 inspector of higher education. It was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1890.
Michel Breal is best known for being the founder of the semantics , which he coined the word, with its semantic test published in 1897. Besides his linguistic work, he has several books on mythology. It is also the author of studies on education in France , the teaching of ancient languages and the reform of the spelling.
Finally, Michel Breal invented the marathon today. For he who, in 1894 , suggested to Baron Pierre de Coubertin introduced this test in the first Olympic Games in modern 1896.
He is also the inspiration of the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius Main works
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