DUVAU, Louis Léon. Saumur (Maine-et-Loire) 12.7.1864 — Angers (Maine-et-Loire) 14.7.1903. French IE Linguist. After school in Orléans studied in Paris (under Bréal and de Saussure) and 1886-87 Leipzig, then two years further studies in Rome. Licencié 1883, agrégé 1884 Paris. From c. 1887-88 Professor (maître de conférences) of classical philology at Dijon, 1888-91 of grammaire comparée at Faculté des lettres in Lille. From 1891 maître de conférences at É.P.H.É. in Paris (succeeding de Saussure). In 1901-02 acting for Bréal at Collège de France, himself already ill. In addition to comparative IE he was mainly interested in Celtic, classical and Germanic languages. He was a hypercritic and perfectionist who published very little. Unmarried.
Publications: Brief articles (e.g. in MSL) on Italic, the edition of a medieval Latin-German glossary 1889, nothing on Indo-Iranian.
Sources: M. Décimo, Genesis 35, 2012, 195-200 (genesis.revues.org/1091?lang=en); Meillet, BSL 13, 1904, 65-67; G. J. Pinault in prosopo.ephe.fr/louis-duvau (with bibliography); Wikidata.
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