october 19, 2021
Elected in 1906 to the Chair of Comparative Grammar at the Collège de France, where he taught until his death in 1936, Antoine Meillet was one of the leading researchers in linguistics and philology at the beginning of the 20thcentury. A specialist in Indo-European languages, he enjoyed a remarkable career in both research and teaching.
The Antoine Meillet fonds perfectly reflects the career of its creator. Deposited from 2000 to 2013 at the Institut mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (IMEC), it has just been reclassified and is now available on Salamandre.
Comprising ten cartons and a binder containing family photographs, the resource represents 3.5 linear meters of documents. It contains hundreds of sheets of lecture notes, some of them written, that Antoine Meillet gave at the EPHE and the Collège de France, as well as family archives such as the letters the linguist exchanged with his cousin Berthe Esbaupin, which form a day-to-day diary of Meillet's trip to Armenia.
