Georges Dumézil
French philologist (1898-1986) · France · On the map · Academics · Died at 88
Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology.
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1986Died11 October 19861984Prix mondial Cino Del DucaAward1979Honorary doctor of the University of LiègeAward1955Honorary Doctor of the University of UppsalaAward1898Born4 March 1898
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Scythian comb from Solokha. Dumézil was greatly interested in Scythian and Ossetian mythology, and its relationship with wider Indo-European mythology.
Depiction of ancient rituals on a Nordic Bronze Age stone slab from The King's Grave in southern Sweden. In his trifunctional hypothesis, Dumézil suggested that Proto-Indo-European society was characterized by an ideology in which the Proto-Indo-Europeans and their deities were hierarchically divided into classes of priests, warriors and producers.
Marble statue of the Roman sky god Jupiter. During World War II, Dumézil conducted pioneering studies on Roman mythology.
Collège de France, where Dumézil from 1949 to 1968 served as Chair of Indo-European Civilization
Académie Française, to which Dumézil was elected in 1975
Animated map of Indo-European migrations in accordance with the Kurgan hypothesis. Dumézil's research, along with that of Marija Gimbutas, formed a basis for modern Indo-European studies.![Carlo Ginzburg charged Dumézil with having "sympathy for Nazi culture" for his works on Germanic and Indo-European religion, and accused Dumézil of conspiring to undermine "Judeo-Christian" values.[32][33]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Carlo_Ginzburg_par_Claude_Truong-Ngoc_mars_2013.jpg/1280px-Carlo_Ginzburg_par_Claude_Truong-Ngoc_mars_2013.jpg)
Carlo Ginzburg charged Dumézil with having "sympathy for Nazi culture" for his works on Germanic and Indo-European religion, and accused Dumézil of conspiring to undermine "Judeo-Christian" values.[32][33]Awards
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Country
France
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1898 to 1986 · aged 88
