name: Georges Dumézil
birth_date: 1898-03-04 00:00:00
death_date: 1986-10-11 00:00:00
genres: Philology, Religion, Proto Indo European
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about: Georges Dumézil was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Proto-Indo-European religion and society. He is considered one of the major contributors to mythography, in particular for his formulation of the trifunctional hypothesis of social class in ancient societies.