Paul Meyer

Paul Meyer (born Jan. 17, 1840, Paris—died Sept. 7, 1917, Paris) was a French language and literary scholar and one of the great authorities on the Medieval French and Provençal languages. He was also noted for his literary histories and critical editions of many medieval works. Attached to the manuscript department of the Bibliothèque National, Paris, from 1863, Meyer became professor of southern European languages and literatures at the Collège de France (1876) as well...