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Jean Haudry (28 May 1934 – 23 May 2023) was a French linguist and Indo-Europeanist. Haudry was generally regarded as a distinguished linguist by other scholars, although he was also criticized for his political proximity with the far-right. Haudry's L'Indo-Européen, published in 1979, remains the reference introduction to the Proto-Indo-European language written in French.
Haudry was a member of the Institute of Formation of the Front National (FN) of Jean-Marie Le Pen. He also served in the Scientific Council of the FN until the late 1990s when he decided to follow Bruno Mégret and his splinter party Mouvement National Républicain.
In 1980, he co-founded with GRECE members and Jean Varenne the "Institute of Indo-European Studies" (IEIE) at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3. Under his leadership between 1982 and 1998, the IEIE published the journal Études indo-européennes. He was a professor of Sanskrit and dean of the faculty of letters at the University Lyon 3 and a directeur d'études at the 4th section of the École Pratique des Hautes Études. He became professor emeritus in 2002.Informations biographiques : Rapport de la Commission sur le racisme et le négationnisme à l'université Jean-Moulin Lyon III, par Henry Rousso, 2004, .
Haudry practiced a version of modern paganism that put heavy emphasis on ethnicity. He described this paganism: "each pagan religion belongs specifically to the corresponding ethnic and linguistic community, which, far from seeking to convert foreigners, jealously guards the benefits of its religion for its members". In 1995, he participated in the founding of the nativist movement Terre et Peuple, along with Pierre Vial and Jean Mabire, and served as its vice president.
Soon after Haudry's retirement, the French Ministry of Education appointed a commission to investigate whether Haudry's institute was too closely associated with the far-right. The work of the commission was mooted when Haudry's successor, Jean-Paul Allard, dissolved the institute and reconstituted it as an association free from state supervision.
He was a director of the Association of French Friends of South African Communities.
Haudry died on 23 May 2023, five days before his 89th birthday. La tradizione indoeuropea: le radici del nostro avvenire
| +Three-sky cosmological model proposed by J. Haudry !Realm !Theme !Deities !Colour | |||
| Day | Celestial | "Daylight-sky god" (Dyeus) | white |
| Dawn/twilight | Bridging | "Binder-god" (Cronus, Savitr, Saturnus) | red |
| Night | Night Spirits | "Night-sky god" (Ouranos) | dark |
According to Haudry, there is a connection between the triad of "thought, word, action" and fire or light. He said that the presence of "divine fires" is in several Indo-European mythologies, such as the figure of Loki in Norse mythology.
For Alberto De Antoni, this study, which is "very scholarly and elaborate from a linguistic point of view, with an extensive bibliography and a critical apparatus", allows Haudry, thanks to the multiplicity of sources within the Indo-European world and due to Haudry's "excellent linguistic expertise" to reconstitute the verbs and nouns of the triadic formula. Review of "La triade pensée, parole, action, dans la tradition indo-européenne", "Athenaeum" 1–2 (2012), pp. 675–680, Alberto De Antoni
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