Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville (; 5 December 1827 – 26 February 1910) was a French

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and Celtic scholar.

Career

He qualified as a lawyer in 1850, and entered a seminary with the intention of becoming a Catholic priest, but his attention turned to French history and in 1851 he left the

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with the degree of

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archivist. He was placed in control of the departmental archives of

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; in 1870 he brought out an ''Étude sur la déclinaison des noms propres dans la langue franque à l'époque mérovingienne''; and in 1877 a learned work on ''Les Premiers habitants de l'Europe'' (2nd edition in 2 vols. 1889 and 1894). Next he concentrated his efforts on the field of

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s, literature and

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, in which he soon became an authority. Appointed in 1882 to the newly founded professorial chair of Celtic at the

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, he began the ''Cours de littérature celtique'' in 1908 extended to twelve volumes. For this he himself edited the following works: ''Introduction à l'étude de la littérature celtique'' (1883); ''L'Épopée celtique en Irlande'' (1892); ''Études de droit celtique'' (1895); and ''Les Principaux auteurs de l'Antiquité à consulter sur l'histoire des Celtes'' (1902). He was among the first in France to study the most ancient monuments of Irish literature with a solid philological preparation and without prejudice.

Personal life

He was born at Nancy, son of Charles-Joseph d’Arbois de Jubainville and Henriette de Beaufort de Gellercourt, a couple who were greatly influenced by

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. He married Melanie de Plante-Wildentag in 1857. After her death, in 1863, he married Charlotte de Pinterville de Cernon with whom he had children, including a son, Paul.

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