Fernand Mossé

Fernand Mossé
Born : Fernand, Lionel Mossé
25 May 1892
Marseille
Died 10 July 1956(1956-07-10) (aged 64)
Occupation Philologist

Fernand Mossé (25 May 1892 – 10 July 1956) was a 20th-century French philologist and historian, specialized in languages and German literature.

Biography

An agrégé of English, Fernand Mossé was a lecturer at the Bangor University in Walles. He later taught in lycées in Nice and Nancy. In 1926, he was appointed directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études. In 1938, he defended his doctoral dissertation, devoted to periphrastic forms of English. In 1949 he was appointed to the chair of languages and literatures of Germanic origin at the Collège de France.

Selected bibliography

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