Georges Calvet died on July 29, 2012, in Saint-Priest. Born August 14, 1936 in Lyon, he was 75 years old. Graduated in Indian languages ​​(Hindi and Urdu) and author of a doctoral thesis in general linguistics, entitled Description d'un dialecte gypsy du Banat, he is the founder, in 1968, of the teaching of the gypsy language at the School. National Center for Modern Oriental Languages ​​(which was not yet the Inalco), in Paris. He taught this until the mid-1990s. Health problems then forced him to withdraw.