Michel Bréal
Michel Jules Alfred Bréal (26 Maret 1832–25 November 1915) adalah seorang filolog Prancis. Dia lahir di Landau in der Pfalz di Rhenish Bavaria. Dia sering disebut sebagai pendiri semantika modern. Dia banyak menulis buku mengenai mitologi dan filologi, berikut ini adalah beberapa karyanya:
- L' Etude des origines de la religion Zoroastrienne (1862), for which a prize was awarded him by the Académie des Inscriptions
- Hercule et Cacus (1863), in which he disputes the principles of the symbolic school in the interpretation of myths
- Le Mythe d'œdipe (1864)
- Les Tables Eugubines (1875)
- Mélanges de mythologie et de linguistique (2nd. ed., 1882)
- Leçons de mots (1882, 1886)
- Dictionnaire étymologique Latin (1885)
- Grammaire latine (1890).
- Essai de Sémantique (1897), on the signification of words, which was translated into English by Mrs H. Cust with preface by J. P. Postgate.