Gustave Fallot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gustave Fallot

French linguist

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1807

Place of Birth: Montbéliard, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 06-Jul-1836

Profession: librarian, romanist, philologist, linguist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Gustave Fallot (17 November 1807 – 6 July 1836) was a French librarian and philologist. Having obtained the diploma of palaeographer-archivist he was appointed sub-librarian of the Institut de France.
He committed himself relentlessly to scholarship; he completed a manuscript on the origins of the French language and notably proposed writing a genealogical history of the human race by languages and a study of the Slavonic languages and literatures.