id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4274 Georges Dumézil - Wikipedia .html text/html 6665 775 67 Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil (4 March 1898 – 11 October 1986) was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology. Through the influence of Michel Bréal, who was a student of Franz Bopp and the grandfather of one of Dumézil's friends, Dumézil came to master Sanskrit, and developed a strong interest in Indo-European mythology and religion.[2] He began studying at École normale supérieure (ENS) in 1916.[1] During World War I, Dumézil served as an artillery officer in the French Army, for which he received the Croix de Guerre. During the war, Dumézil significantly reformulated his theories, and applied his trifunctional hypothesis to the study of Indo-Iranians, most notably in his work Mitra-Varuna (1940). George Dumézil and the Study of the Indo-European Component in Germanic Mythology. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4274.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4274.txt