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}}Abel Hovelacque (14 November 1843 – 22 February 1896) was a 19th-century French linguist, anthropologist and politician.

Biography

Abel Hovelacque was a representative of the naturalistic and anthropological linguistics. He studied languages with Honoré Chavée and comparative anatomy with Paul Broca.NIE, Hovelacque, Alexandre Abel, x, He was a founder of the {{Interlanguage link multi|École d’anthropologie|fr}}, in which he was made professor of linguistic ethnography, and of which, after the death of Jules Gavarret, he became director (1890). He was a member of the Society of Anthropology of Paris. In 1886 Hovelacque and Chavée founded the Revue de Linguistique. That same year, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.WEB, APS Member History,search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?year=1886;smode=advanced;startDoc=1, 2021-05-21, search.amphilsoc.org, He was also interested in politics. He served on the {{Interlanguage link multi|Conseil municipal de Paris|fr}} which he presided in 1887–1888. He became MP for Paris (13th) from 1889 to 1894.Notice biographique sur le site de l’Assemblée nationale, par Jean Jolly. He was an extreme Republican.The {{Interlanguage link multi|rue Abel-Hovelacque|fr}} in Paris was named after him as well as two others in Lille and Saint Etienne. The anatomist André Hovelacque (1880-1939) was his son.

Publications

• Grammaire de la langue zende, Maisonneuve, 1868WEB, Grammaire de la langue zende,gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5772896w, Gallica - BnF, 24 September 2016, Ré-edition Hachette BnF, 2013
• La Linguistique, Reinwald, 1877
• Notre ancêtre, recherches d’anatomie et d’ethnologie sur le précurseur de l’homme, Leroux, 1878
• Études de linguistique et d’ethnographie, Reinwald, 1878
• Les débuts de l’humanité : L’homme primitif contemporain, Doin, 1881
• Les Races humaines, Cerf, 1882

Sources

• Piet Desmet, La linguistique naturaliste en France (1867-1922). Nature, origine et évolution du langage, Louvain, 1994, p. 224-287. Read online.

References

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External links

{{Commons category|Abel Hovelacque}}

• Abel Hovelacque on Wikisource

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