Frédéric Macler
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1869|5|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = Mandeure, France
| death_date = {{death date and age|1938|7|12|1869|5|26|df=y}}
| death_place = Montbéliard, France
| nationality = French
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| occupation = Linguist, orientalist, translator
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Frédéric Macler (26 May 1869 – 12 July 1938) was a French linguist, orientalist and translator.
A native of Mandeure,{{cite web |url=https://portail-archives.doubs.fr/ark:/25993/klwjhsn7vxr2/d5552479-3834-4043-8af8-e0e935f6a219 |title=N 1855-1893: 118/358 |website=Departmental archives of Doubs |language=fr }} Macler learned Armenian, Assyrian, and Hebrew from Auguste Carrière. In 1911, he succeeded Antoine Meillet, as he took a chair in Armenian at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, which he held until 1937. In 1919, he co-founded the Society for Armenian Studies. In 1920, he founded the Revue des Études Arméniennes, which he directed until 1933, with Antoine Meillet.{{cite journal |last=Mahé |first=Jean-Pierre |title=Ռևյու դեզ էթյուդ Արմենիեն |trans-title=Revue des Études Arméniennes |journal=Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences |volume=9 |year=1983 |page=649 }}
His works include a French translation of the Arabic Vision of Daniel.{{cite journal |first=Frédéric |last=Macler |author-link=Frédéric Macler |title=L'apocalypse arabe de Daniel: publiée, traduite et annotée |journal=Revue de l'histoire des religions |year=1904 |volume=49 |pages=265–305}}
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