Antoine Thomas (linguist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antoine Thomas (linguist)

French linguist

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1857

Place of Birth: Saint-Yrieix-la-Montagne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 17-May-1935

Profession: archivist, university teacher, romanist, medievalist, philologist, linguist, lexicographer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Antoine Thomas (29 November 1857, Saint-Yrieix-la-Montagne – 17 May 1935, Paris) was a French linguist.
He is known for his work with Adolphe Hatzfeld and Arsène Darmesteter, on the Dictionnaire général de la langue française du commencement du XVIIe siècle à nos jours, which was issued in parts from 1890 to 1900.
He supplied etymological notes. From 1875 to 1878 he studied at the École des Chartes, afterwards spending several years associated with the École française de Rome.
In 1883 he became a lecturer of Romance languages and literature at the Faculty of Letters of Toulouse, and from 1888 taught classes at the Sorbonne, where in 1901 he was appointed a full professor of medieval literature and Romance philology.From 1895 to 1910 he was director of studies in Romance philology at the École pratique des Hautes Études.
In 1904 he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.