Paul Meyer
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Paul Meyer was a French philologist, medievalist, romanist, linguist, and literary historian whose work occupied the intersection of language and medieval textual scholarship. He worked in both French and Occitan, and his roles across his career encompassed those of professor, university teacher, and librarian. He was a citizen of France, and his professional life was spent in sustained engagement with the medieval literary and linguistic record.
Meyer was born in Paris on 17 January 1840. He was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and subsequently at the École des chartes, a formation that directed him toward the scholarly pursuits he would maintain throughout his life. Those institutional foundations shaped his development as a professor and university teacher, positions through which he carried out the philological and historical inquiries that defined his career.
The distinctions Meyer accumulated over his lifetime reflected both national recognition and a wider European regard for his scholarship. France appointed him Commander of the Legion of Honour, placing him among the higher ranks of its principal order of merit. His reputation extended beyond French borders: the University of Oxford and the University of St Andrews each conferred upon him an honorary doctorate, honors that situated his contributions within a broader European scholarly community.
Meyer died on 7 September 1917 in Saint-Mandé. The honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford, granted by an institution with deep roots in the study of medieval languages, stands as one of the more concrete testimonies to the place his work as a philologist and medievalist had earned him during his lifetime.
Quotes by Paul Meyer
Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people’s emotions so they instinctively help and support you...
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Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do.
If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you’ll continue to get what you’ve always got. Is it enough?
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Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do
Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you..
If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got. Is it enough?
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerly believe and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass.
Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and services that serve people's needs in a more efficient, integrated way.