What is Frédéric Macler?
{{Infobox person | name = | image = Frédéric_Macler.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1869|5|26|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Mandeure]], France | death_date = {{death date and age|1938|7|12|1869|5|26|df=y}} | death_place = [[Montbéliard]], France | nationality = French | other_names = | occupation = Linguist, orientalist, translator | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Frédéric Macler''' (26 May 1869 – 12 July 1938) was a French linguist, orientalist and translator. ==Biography== A native of [[Mandeure]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://portail-archives.doubs.fr/ark:/25993/klwjhsn7vxr2/d5552479-3834-4043-8af8-e0e935f6a219 |title=N 1855-1893: 118/358 |website=Departmental archives of Doubs |language=fr |access-date=2022-07-04 |archive-date=2023-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231211023909/https://portail-archives.doubs.fr/ark:/25993/klwjhsn7vxr2/d5552479-3834-4043-8af8-e0e935f6a219 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Macler learned [[Armenian language|Armenian]], [[Suret language|Assyrian]], and [[Hebrew]] from [[Auguste Carrière]]. In 1911, he succeeded [[Antoine Meillet]], as he took a chair in Armenian at the [[Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales]], which he held until 1937. In 1919, he co-founded the Society for Armenian Studies. In 1920, he founded the ''[[Revue des Études Arméniennes]]'', which he directed until 1933, with Antoine Meillet.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Mahé |first=Jean-Pierre |title=Ռևյու դեզ էթյուդ Արմենիեն |trans-title=Revue des Études Arméniennes |journal=Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences |volume=9 |year=1983 |page=649 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist|2}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Macler, Frédéric}} [[Category:1869 births]] [[Category:1938 deaths]] [[Category:People from Doubs]] [[Category:French linguists]] [[Category:French translators]] {{bio-stub}}