Gaston Vasseur

Gaston Vasseur (1904 – 1971) was a French linguist. He obtained his PhD at the Sorbonne in 1948 (Le parler picard de Nibas et sa grammaire).

Gaston Vasseur was born in Nibas (Somme) in 1904, and died in 1971.

Gaston Vasseur was one of the masters of dialectology of Picard whom he greatly enriched by his work. He has published numerous books and lexicons of dialectology.

In 1967 in Abbeville, he is the founder of the groupe des Picardisants du Ponthieu et du Vimeu.