Auguste Carrière (19 August 1838 – 25 January 1902) was a French linguist, grammarian and historian, specializing in

comparative grammar Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic ...

and

Armenian culture The culture of Armenia encompasses many elements that are based on the geography, literature, architecture, dance, and music of the Armenian people. Armenia is a majority Christian country in the Caucasus. Creative arts Literature Ar ...

. He was a professor at the

Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (; ), abbreviated as INALCO, is a French Grand Etablissement with a specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. Its coverage spans languages of Central Europ ...

in Paris, and was an advocate of

Armenian language Armenian (endonym: , , ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian language family. It is the native language of the Armenians, Armenian people and the official language of ...

studies, establishing an Armenian Chair at the school.

Publications

*''Grammaire arménienne'' (1883), édition corrigée et augmentée de celle de Max Lauer *''Un ancien glossaire latin-arménien'' (1886) *''Une version arménienne de l'histoire d'Asséneth'' (1886) *''La correspondance apocryphe de saint Paul et des Corinthiens, ancienne version latine et traduction du texte arménien'' (1891) *'' Moïse de Khoren et les généalogies patriarcales'' (1891) *''Nouvelles sources de Moïse de Khoren : Études critiques'' (1893) *''La légende d'Abgar dans l Histoire d'Arménie ''de Moïse de Khoren'' (1895) *''Les huit sanctuaires de l'Arménie païenne d'après Agathange et Moïse de Khoren, étude critique'' (1899).

Bibliography

* Patrick Cabanel, « Auguste Carrière », in Patrick Cabanel et André Encrevé (dir.), ''Dictionnaire biographique des protestants français de 1787 à nos jours'', tome 1 : A-C, Les Éditions de Paris Max Chaleil, Paris, 2015,

References

People from Seine-Maritime 1838 births 1902 deaths 19th-century French historians French philologists Linguists from France Grammarians from France French orientalists {{France-historian-stub