Arsène Darmesteter
Arsène Darmesteter · Philosophy & Social Sciences
French philologist of Old French and historical semantics.
1846, Château-Salins, France — 1888, Paris, France
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Arsène Darmesteter is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — French philologist of Old French and historical semantics.
Darmesteter was a French philologist who helped found the scientific study of Old French and the history of word meanings (historical semantics), and co-authored a major dictionary of the French language. He was Jewish, born in Château-Salins in Lorraine, and taught at the Sorbonne.
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French philologist of Old French and historical semantics.
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