Dany Bébel-Gisler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dany Bébel-Gisler

French sociologist, linguist and ethnographer

Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1935

Place of Birth: Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France

Date of Death: 28-Sep-2003

Profession: writer, civil rights advocate, sociologist, ethnographer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Dany Bébel-Gisler (7 April 1935 – 28 September 2003) was an Afro-Guadeloupean writer and sociolinguist who specialized in Antillean Creole and ethnology.
She was one of the first linguists to defend the preservation and teaching of Creole languages and study how the interplay of the lingua franca of the Caribbean reflected the social hierarchy, as well as the assimilation or lack thereof of both the colonizers and colonized.
She was instrumental in the development of UNESCO's The Slave Route Project, tracing the intersection of African, Caribbean and European cultures and published several novels and children's books on Guadeloupean culture.