Octave Merlier
Octave Merlier was an expert on the Modern Greek language.
Merlier was born in Roubaix. He studied at the Sorbonne and École pratique des hautes études under the tutelage of Antonius Meillet and Joseph Vendyres.
He served as director of the from 1938 to 1961. In 1923 he married , noted for her collection of Modern Greek folk songs.
Merlier died in Athens.Works
- Poèmes akritiques; La mort de Digénis: tragédie, a French translation of a poem by Angelos Sikelianos.
- Itinéraires de Jésus et chronologie dans le Quatrième Évangile, 1961)
- : Ο τελευταίος ελληνισμός της Μικράς Ασίας. Έκθεση του έργου του Κέντρου Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών, 1930-1973. Κατάλογος.
- La vision prophétique du moine Dionysios, ou, La femme de Zante by Dionysios Solomos; French translation by Octave Merlier.
