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Maurice Olender
French historian and academic (1946–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maurice Olender (21 April 1946 – 27 October 2022) was a Belgian-French historian, professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His teaching focused in particular on the genesis of the idea of race in the nineteenth century. He also published widely on the intellectual history of the concepts of Indo-European languages and Proto-language, most importantly in his monograph Les langues du Paradis. As editor, he headed the journal Le Genre humain [fr][1] and La librairie du XXIe siècle[2] at Éditions du Seuil.
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Olender died in Brussels on 27 October 2022, at the age of 76.[3]