Career
Under his leadership the Institut published, between 1982 and 1998, the Études indo-européennes. He was a professor of Sanskrit and dean of the faculty of letters at the University Lyon 3 and a directeur d"études at the 4th section of the École Pratique des Hautes Études. He became professor emeritus in 2002.
He contributed to the creation of the peridodical Nouvelle École.
Jean Haudry also participates in the activities of the group Terre et Peuple founded by Pierre Vial, another professor of the University Lyon 3. Soon after Jean Haudry"s retirement, the French Ministry of Education appointed a commission to investigate whether Haudry"s institute was not too closely associated with the extreme political right.
The work of the commission was mooted when Haudry"s successor, Jean-Paul Allard dissolved the institute and reconstituted it as an association free from state supervision. Bruce Lincoln calls Haudry an "excellent linguist" and mentions that Haudry supports the Arctic hypothesis of the origin of Indo-Europeans.
