Henri Gaidoz

Henri Gaidoz ( born July 28, 1842 in Paris, † April 2, 1932 ) was a French anthropologist and Keltologe.

Life and work

Gaidoz studied in Germany, traveled through England and Ireland and the lack of a French Celtic Studies was aware. He founded in 1870 the Revue celtique, which he edited until 1885, and was one of the early members of the Société de linguistique de Paris. From 1872 to 1908 he taught geography and ethnography at the École libre des sciences politiques, from 1876 he was Directeur d' études for Celtic philology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. With his friend Eugène Rolland (1846-1909) together, he gave the magazine Melusine. Recueil de mythology, littérature populaire, traditions et usages out (10 vols, Paris 1878-1901 ). The first Chair of Celtic Studies at the Collège de France was not he, but his rival Henri d' Arbois de Jubainville. In the last 20 years Gaidoz was blind.

Works ( selection)

• Esquisse de la religion des Gaulois, avec un appendice sur le Dieu Enima, Paris 1879
• (along with Paul Sebillot ) Blason Populaire de la France, Paris 1884
• Etudes de mythology Gauloise I. Le Dieu Gaulois du Soleil et le Symbolisme de la Roue, Paris 1886
• Pour le centenaire Gaspar de Zeus, fondateur de la philology celtique, Chartres 1906