Octave Merlier (; ; 25 October 1897 â 24 July 1976) was a French expert on the Modern Greek language.
Biography
Merlier was born in Roubaix in 1897. He studied at the Sorbonne and ÃÂcole pratique des hautes études under the tutelage of Antoine Meillet and Joseph Vendyres.
He served as director of the from 1938 to 1961.
In 1923, he married Melpo Logotheti, noted for her collection of Modern Greek folk songs.
Merlier died in 1976 in Athens.
Works
- Poèmes akritiques; La mort de Digénis: tragédie, a French translation of a poem by Angelos Sikelianos.
- Itinéraires de Jésus et chronologie dans le Quatrième ÃÂvangile, 1961)
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- La vision prophétique du moine Dionysios, ou, La femme de Zante by Dionysios Solomos; French translation by Octave Merlier ("The prophetic vision of Dionysios Solomos The Monk, or the Woman of Zakynthos," 1987).
References
- Mélanges offerts àOctave et Melpo Merlier àl'occasion du 25e anniversaire de leur arrivée en Grèce. Athenis: Institut Français d'Athènes, 1956 (Collection de l'Institut Français d'Athènes, 92)
- Octavie Merlier, Octave Merlier. Un grand Français, un ami de la Grèce. Lutetiae: Les Belles Lettres, 1983
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