Georges Dumézil

Georges Dumézil
Georges Dumézil
Born	4 March 1898; Paris, France
Died	11 October 1986 (aged 88); Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Philologist, linguist, religious studies scholar
Spouse	Madeleine Legrand (after 1925)
Children	2
Academic background
Education	École normale supérieure;
Thesis	Le festin d'immortalité (1924)
Doctoral advisor	Antoine Meillet
Other advisors	Michel Bréal
Influences	Max Müller; James George Frazer; Ernst Kuhn; Émile Durkheim; Marcel Granet; Hermann Güntert; Jan de Vries; Otto Höfler; Émile Benveniste; Stig Wikander;
Academic work
Discipline	Philology;
Sub-discipline	Comparative mythology; Indo-European studies;
Institutions	Istanbul University; École pratique des hautes études; Collège de France;
Main interests	Proto-Indo-European mythology and society
Notable works	Mythe et epopee (1968–1973)
Notable ideas	Trifunctional hypothesis
Influenced	Jan de Vries; Otto Höfler; Stig Wikander; Émile Benveniste; Mircea Eliade; Claude Lévi-Strauss; Gabriel Turville-Petre; Werner Betz; Edgar C. Polomé; Jaan Puhvel; C. Scott Littleton; Dean A. Miller; Nicholas Allen;

Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil (French: [dymezil]; 4 March 1898 – 11 October 1986) was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology. He was a professor at Istanbul University, École pratique des hautes études and the Collège de France, and a member of the Académie Française. Dumézil is well known for his formulation of the trifunctional hypothesis on Proto-Indo-European mythology and society. His research has had a major influence on the fields of comparative mythology and Indo-European studies. In the 1930s he was a supporter (though not a formal member) of the far-right group Action Française, leading to criticism from left-wing scholars in the 1980s and afterwards.