[2] Charles Rostaing was one of the most famous specialists in French place names in general and Provence in particular of the 20th century.

After his higher studies from 1923 to 1926 in Aix-en-Provence where he was a pupil of Georges Lote and Emile Ripert, he obtained his Agrégation in grammar in 1928.

Just before the defence of his thesis he entered higher education in October 1946 as a lecturer in the language and literature of Provence in the Faculty of Arts of Aix-en-Provence.

In the following year after defending his thesis, he became a senior lecturer and then Professor of classic French language and literature in 1948 before succeeding Auguste Brun, in 1952, to the Chair of Romance languages - a post he held until his departure for the Sorbonne in 1967.

Sources: University System documentation (in French) • National Library of France (in French) • Virtual International Authority File • Library of Congress • Gemeinsame Normdatei (in German) • WorldCat