Jean Deny
Jean Deny | |
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| Born | 12 July 1879 Kiev |
| Died | 26 March 1923 (aged 43) |
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 soon in his young age. After the baccalaureate, he specialized in Oriental languages (classical Arabic, Arabic dialect, Persian, Turkish and Russian). He became professor of turkology at the Sorbonne after he taught at the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes 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)[1]
- 1955: Principes de grammaire turque
- 1959: L’osmanli moderne et le turk de Turquie
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