About Frédéric Eichhoff
Lived 1799 – 1875 (aged 75). Frédéric Eichhoff was a French school teacher, writer, philologist, linguist, university teacher and librarian.
Frédéric Gustave Eichhoff (17 August 1799, in Le Havre – 10 May 1875, in Paris) was a French linguist and philologist.
He studied at Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1826 with a thesis on Hesiod. In 1837–38, he worked as a substitute for Claude Fauriel at the Sorbonne, and in 1842 was appointed professor of foreign languages at the Faculty of Letters in Lyon. From 1855 onward, he served as inspector-general for public instruction.
He was a member of the Académie de Stanislas and a correspondent member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1847–75).
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Who was Frédéric Eichhoff?
writer (1799–1875)
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Frédéric Eichhoff was born on 17 August 1799 in Le Havre.
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Frédéric Eichhoff died on 10 May 1875 in 6th arrondissement of Paris, Paris.
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Frédéric Eichhoff was a school teacher, writer, philologist, linguist, university teacher and librarian.
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Frédéric Eichhoff was French.
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