Colette Caillat was a French professor of Sanskrit and comparative grammar.
10 Facts About Colette Caillat
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Colette Caillat was one of the world's leading Jain scholars.
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Colette Caillat embarked upon her academic career with the study of Classical Latin and Greek, focusing on their literary and grammatical aspects.
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Colette Caillat was then free to devote all her time to Indian studies, starting with a memoire on nominal derivation in Middle Indo-Aryan which led her to read Jain texts under the supervision of Walther Schubring in Hamburg.
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Colette Caillat first visited India in 1963 and remained a regular visitor to India throughout her life.
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Colette Caillat stayed and worked several times in Mysore and Ahmedabad.
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Colette Caillat first taught Sanskrit and Comparative Grammar at the University of Lyon from 1960 to 1966.
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Colette Caillat was appointed to the Sorbonne University in 1967, as the successor of Louis Renou who had died suddenly, where she remained until retirement in 1988.
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Colette Caillat was a commander of the Legion d'honneur, commander of Ordre national du Merite, and commander of the Ordre des Palmes Academiques.
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Colette Caillat was elected a member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1987, and was a member of several other academies and scholarly associations.