Abel Hovelacque (14 November 1843 – 22 February 1896) was a 19th-century French

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

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and politician.

Biography

Abel Hovelacque was a representative of the naturalistic and anthropological linguistics. He studied languages with Honoré Chavée and comparative anatomy with

Paul Broca Pierre Paul Broca (, also , , ; 28 June 1824 – 9 July 1880) was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that is named after him. Broca's area is involve ...

. He was a founder of the , in which he was made professor of linguistic ethnography, and of which, after the death of Jules Gavarret, he became director (1890). He was a member of the

Society of Anthropology of Paris The Society of Anthropology of Paris (french: Société d’Anthropologie de Paris) is a French learned society for anthropology founded by Paul Broca in 1859. Broca served as the Secrétaire-général of SAP, and in that capacity responded to a l ...

. In 1886 Hovelacque and Chavée founded the ''Revue de Linguistique''. That same year, he was elected as a member to the

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...

. He was also interested in politics. He served on the which he presided in 1887–1888. He became MP for Paris ( 13th) from 1889 to 1894. He was an extreme Republican. The in Paris was named after him as well as two others in Lille and Saint Etienne. The

anatomist Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having its ...

André Hovelacque (1880-1939) was his son.

Publications

* ''Grammaire de la langue zende'', Maisonneuve, 1868 Ré-edition Hachette BnF, 2013 * ''La Linguistique'', Reinwald, 1877 * ''Notre ancêtre, recherches d'anatomie et d'ethnologie sur le précurseur de l'homme'', Leroux, 1878 * ''Études de linguistique et d'ethnographie'', Reinwald, 1878 * ''Les débuts de l'humanité : L'homme primitif contemporain'', Doin, 1881 * ''Les Races humaines'', Cerf, 1882

Sources

* Piet Desmet, ''La linguistique naturaliste en France (1867-1922). Nature, origine et évolution du langage'', Louvain, 1994, p. 224-287. Read online

References

External links

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