Aurélien Sauvageot

Sauvageot was born in Constantinople, as his father was an engineer working in the service of the Ottoman Sultan.In 1918, Sauvageot was admitted at the École Normale Supérieure and started studying Germanic languages.Sauvageot's teachers, most prominent among them Antoine Meillet, pushed him towards finno-ugric linguistics as the professorship for it was vacant since philologist Robert Gauthiot had been killed in the First World War.Sauvageot traveled to Uppsala in Sweden where he started learning Finnish, then moved to Finland in June 1919, and stayed there until October.In 1931, Sauvageot inaugurated the professorship for finno-ugric languages at the École française des Langues Orientales.
ConstantinopleAix-en-ProvenceÉcole normale supérieureLinguistprofessorFinno-Ugric languagesAntoine MeilletRobert GauthiotFirst World WarUppsalaSwedenFinnishFinlandBudapestUralo-AltaicGothicarticlesÉcole française des Langues OrientalesSociété de Linguistique de ParisUralicAltaic languagesMcElvenny, JamesFrench