Alexis Chassang

Alexis Chassang (2 April 1827 in Bourg-la-Reine – 8 March 1888 in Bourg-la-Reine) was a French linguist and translator.

In 1849 he received his agrégation in letters, and in 1852, his doctorate. Afterwards, he served as a professor of rhetoric at lycées in Lille and Bourges. From 1862 to 1871 he was a professor of Greek languages and literature at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

From 1873 to 1888 he held the post of Inspector General of Secondary Education. He was co-founder of the Association pour l'encouragement des études grecques (Association for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies), serving as its president in 1887.

Published works

 * Des Essais dramatiques imités de l'antiquité au XIVe et au XVe siècle, 1852 (dissertation).
 * Choix de narrations tirées des auteurs latins, 1854.
 * Histoire du roman et de ses rapports avec l'histoire dans l'antiquité grecque et latine, 1862.
 * Apollonius de Tyane : sa vie, ses voyages, ses prodiges, 1862 (translation of Philostratus).
 * Le Spiritualisme et l'idéal dans l'art et la poésie des Grecs, 1868.
 * Nouveau dictionnaire grec-francais, 1872.
 * Nouvelle grammaire grecque... d'après les principes de la grammaire comparée, 1872.
 * Nouvelle grammaire française, 1876.
 * Grammaire grecque, d'après la méthode comparative et historique : cours supérieur, 1888.
 * New etymological French grammar giving for the first time the history of the French syntax.