Jean Haudry

Summary

Jean Haudry was a French linguist and Indo-Europeanist who specialised in Sanskrit, Vedic studies, and comparative Indo-European grammar. A professor at the University of Lyon and director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études, he founded the Institut d’études indo-européennes and published extensively on Indo-European mythology and cosmology, notably proposing the three-sky model, which is often mentioned in handbooks of Indo-European studies.