Abel Hovelacque

Abel Hovelacque (14 November 1843 – 22 February 1896) was a 19th-century French linguist, anthropologist and politician.

Biography Abel Hovelacque was a representative of the naturalistic and anthropological linguistics. He studied languages with Honoré Chavée and comparative anatomy with Paul Broca. He was a founder of the , in which he was made professor of linguistic ethnography, and of which, after the death of Jules Gavarret, he became director (1890).

He was also interested in politics. He served on the which he presided in 1887–1888. He became MP for Paris (13th) from 1889 to 1894. He was an extreme Republican. Ré-edition Hachette BnF, 2013 La Linguistique, Reinwald, 1877 Notre ancêtre, recherches d'anatomie et d'ethnologie sur le précurseur de l'homme, Leroux, 1878 Études de linguistique et d'ethnographie, Reinwald, 1878 Les débuts de l'humanité : L'homme primitif contemporain, Doin, 1881 Les Races humaines, Cerf, 1882