Joseph Vendryes

Joseph Vendryes or Vendryès (; 13 January 1875 – 30 January 1960) was a French Celticist. After studying with Antoine Meillet, he was chairman of Celtic languages and literature at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. He founded the journal Études Celtiques. He was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and a consultant with the International Auxiliary Language Association, which standardized and presented Interlingua.

Biography Joseph Jean Baptiste Marie Vendryès was born on 13 January 1875 in Paris (9th arrondissement). His father, Albert Jean Baptiste Eugène Vendryès, worked for the Ministry of Public Instruction, and his grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Vendryès, was an alumnus of the École normale supérieure and served as a school inspector in Caen and Melun.

Vendryès studied at the pensionnat des Oblats de Saint-François de Sales and the École Sainte-Anne in Saint-Ouen (1883–1889), then as an external student at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He earned a baccalauréat ès lettres in 1891, a licence ès lettres in 1894, and became agrégé in grammar in 1896. He held several research fellowships, including study grants in Germany (1898–1899) and at the École pratique des hautes études (1897–1900). He earned his doctorat ès lettres in May 1902.