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, Macler learned

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, Assyrian, and

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from Auguste Carrière. In 1911, he succeeded

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, as he took a chair in Armenian at the

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, which he held until 1937. In 1919, he co-founded the Society for Armenian Studies. In 1920, he founded the ''

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'' Vision of Daniel''.

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