Georges Dumézil (1898 -1986), a prominent specialist and researcher in the history of religion and comparative mythology, began his college career in 1921 as a lecturer in French at the University of Warsaw. From 1925 to 1931 was professor of history of religions at the University of Istanbul. From 1931 to 1933 he served as reader of French at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. He taught comparative mythology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and was named honorary professor at the Collège de France. In 1970 he was elected to the Académie française. He was also visiting professor at the universities of Princeton, Chicago (with Mircea Eliade) and Los Angeles. Among his many works include Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus, Mitra-Varuna, Nassanse d'archanges, Le troisième Souverain, Religion romaine archaïche, from myth to the novel, Myth and Epic and Romans of Scythie et d'alentour.