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

Biography

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

Arabic dialect The varieties (or dialects or vernacular languages) of Arabic, a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family originating in the Arabian Peninsula, are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. There are considerable variatio ...

, 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 Turkic peoples in chronological and comparative cont ...

at the

Sorbonne Sorbonne may refer to: * Sorbonne (building), historic building in Paris, which housed the University of Paris and is now shared among multiple universities. *the University of Paris (c. 1150 – 1970) *one of its components or linked institution, ...

after he taught at the

École nationale des langues orientales vivantes Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales ( en, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations), abbreviated as INALCO, is a French university specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. ...

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

Colloque Jean Deny
{{DEFAULTSORT:Deny, Jean Linguists from France Turkologists Writers from Kyiv 1879 births 1963 deaths