Aurélien Sauvageot (1897–1988) was a French linguist. He was specialised in Finno-Ugric languages.

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Aurélien Sauvageot
Born	13 April 1897  Constantinople
Died	5 December 1988  (aged 91) Aix-en-Provence
Alma mater	École normale supérieure
Occupation	Linguist, professor

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Sauvageot was born in Constantinople, as his father was an engineer working in the service of the Ottoman Sultan.

In 1918, Sauvageot was admitted at the École Normale Supérieure and started studying Germanic languages. Sauvageot's teachers, most prominent among them Antoine Meillet, pushed him towards finno-ugric linguistics as the professorship for it was vacant since philologist Robert Gauthiot had been killed in the First World War. Sauvageot traveled to Uppsala in Sweden where he started learning Finnish, then moved to Finland in June 1919, and stayed there until October.

In 1923, he moved to Hungary to teach French at the Eötvös József Collegium in Budapest. He remained there until 1929, then moved back to France and completed his doctoral thesis on the lexicon of Uralo-Altaic languages,^{[N 1]} and a complementary thesis on Gothic articles.

In 1931, Sauvageot inaugurated the professorship for finno-ugric languages at the École française des Langues Orientales.

In 1932 and 1937, he published, along with József Balassa and Marcel Benedek the first Hungarian-French and French-Hungarian dictionary.

Although Sauvageot retired in 1967, he remained actively involved in the activities of both the Société de Linguistique de Paris and the Cercle linguistique d'Aix en Provence, until his death in 1988.

• Joseph, John E. (December 2020). "The Resistant Embrace of Formalism in the Work of Émile Benveniste and Aurélien Sauvageot". In McElvenny, James (ed.). Form and Formalism in Linguistics. Saint Philip Street Press. ISBN 9781013293382.

• Perrot, Jean (2009). "La carrière et l'oeuvre d'Aurélien Sauvageot" (PDF). Études Finno-Ougriennes (41).

• Sauvageot, Aurélien. 1992. La structure du langage. Aix-en-Provence: Publications de l’Université de Provence.

• Sauvageot, Aurélien. 2013. Souvenirs de ma vie hongroise. New ed. Budapest: Collège Eötvös József ELTE — Institut Français de Budapest. Orig. publ. Budapest: Corvina, 1988

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