Maurice Grammont

Maurice Grammont (15 April 1866, in Damprichard – 17 October 1946, in Montpellier) was a French linguist.

He studied linguistics in Paris as a student of Michel Bréal, Arsène Darmesteter, Jules Gilliéron, Gaston Paris and Ferdinand de Saussure. Also, he studied Indo-European languages in Germany; at Freiburg as a pupil of Rudolf Thurneysen and at the University of Berlin under Johannes Schmidt. From 1892 taught classes in linguistics, Gothic and Lithuanian at the Faculty of Letters in Dijon. In 1895 he was appointed chair of grammar and philology at the Faculty of Letters in Montpellier, where he remained up until his retirement in 1939.

In 1904/05 he founded the laboratory of experimental phonetics at the University of Montpellier. He also worked as editor of the journal Revue des langues romanes.