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 Date birth : 1922
More : Died in 2005
(b. 1922 in Neuchâtel, d. 2005 in Kirchlindach), Swiss scholar of comparative grammar of the Indo-European languages and Iranian dialectology.
Georges Redard was born in Switzerland, close to the French border. He studied classics at Neuchâtel University, where he also studied Russian, Lithuanian, Sanskrit, and Persian. He was a pupil of Max Niedermann, who guided his doctoral research on Greek morphology. At the age of 20, Redard had already demonstrated the main trends of what would be his scholarly life: a great expertise in both German-language and French-language scientific methods, a major interest for comparative grammar and specially Ancient Greek, and an evident liking for Modern Persian. In 1944-48 he studied the same subjects in Paris with great scholars whom he greatly respected until the end of his life. He always pronounced with veneration the names of these masters, among them G. Dumézil, E. Benveniste, and H. Massé, under whose supervision he completed his knowledge of Persian language and literature.
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