Paul Meyer (philologist)

Marie-Paul-Hyacinthe Meyer (17 January 1840, Paris – 7 September 1917, Saint-Mandé), was a French philologist.

Meyer was born in Paris and educated at the Lycée Louis le Grand and the École des Chartes, specializing in the Romance languages.

In 1876 he became professor of the languages and literatures of southern Europe at the Collège de France.

In 1882 he was made director of the École des Chartes, and a year later was nominated a member of the Academy of Inscriptions.

Paul Meyer began with the study of old Provençal literature, but subsequently did valuable work in many different departments of romance literature, and ranked as the chief authority on the French language of his era.