MAROUZEAU, Jules Emile. Fleurat (Creuse) 20.3.1878 — Iteuil (Vienne) 27.9.1964. French Linguist and Latin Scholar. Son of a farmer, educated in Guéret and at Lycée Lakanal. In 1901-07 studies at Sorbonne (agrégé 1904), i.al. under Meillet. Docteur-ès-lettres 1910 (both dissertations on Latin). In 1910-12 further studies in Germany, Italy and England. In WW I in army and as prisoner of war in Germany. From 1920 Directeur d’études at É.P.H.É. and from 1925 also Professor of Latin at Sorbonne. Retired 1948. A.I.B.L. 1945. Hon. dr. Geneva 1911, Glasgow 1923 and Lausanne 1930. Officer of Légion d’honneur. Founder of the Revue des études latines (1923) and of the famous yearly bibliography of classics, L’Année philologique (1928).
Publications: Much on Latin, also on French.
– “Sur les formes de l’emploi du verbe ‘être’ dans le Divyāvadāna”, Mélanges Lévi 1911, 151-158.
Sources: W. Briggs in Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars with photo; P. Courcelle, Annuaire de l’É.P.H.É. 1965, 42-47 with photo; *J. Perret, Gnomon 37, 1965, 103-105; French Wikipédia.
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