Édouard summer

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Édouard Sommer (born April 6, 1822 in Nancy , † July 1866 in Paris ) was a French classical philologist, Romance scholar , translator, grammarian and lexicographer.

life and work

In the summer of 1846 the Agrégation de lettres existed and received his doctorate from the University of Dijon in 1847 with the Thèses Du Caractère et du génie de Pindare (Paris 1847) and Quomodo tradi possit synonymorum graecorum doctrina (Paris 1847). He has translated numerous authors from ancient Greek and Latin and has published successful manuals, grammars and dictionaries for the languages ​​ancient Greek, Latin and French at Louis Hachette's publishing house . Together with Bernard Jullien, he worked at the insistence of Louis Hachette as an assistant to Émile Littré in the creation of his dictionary.

Sommer's dictionary on the language of Madame de Sévigné was reprinted in 1973.

Sommer was buried in Nancy.

Works (selection)

  • (Ed. And translator) Oeuvres de Pindare , Paris 1848
  • Manuel de style , 2 vols., Paris 1848
  • Manuel de style épistolaire , 2 vols., Paris 1849
  • Petit dictionnaire des synonymes français , Paris 1849, most recently 1906
  • Petit dictionnaire des rimes françaises , Paris 1850, last in 1879
  • Lexique latin-français à l'usage des classes élémentaires , Paris 1851, most recently 1949
  • Lexique français-latin à l'usage des classes élémentaires , Paris 1860, most recently 1959
  • Cours complet de grammaire française , Paris 1861
  • Abrégé de grammaire grecque , Paris 1861
  • Cours complet de grammaire latine , Paris 1861
  • Cours complet de grammaire grecque , Paris 1862
  • Lexique grec-français , Paris 1862, last 1934
  • Premières notions de grammaire générale , Paris 1864
  • Lexique de la langue de Madame de Sévigné , 2 vols., Paris 1866, New York / Hildesheim 1973 (published posthumously, obtained from Sommer's teacher Adolphe Regnier )

literature

  • Pierre Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle sv
  • André Desfeuilles, Un émule de Lhomond. Edouard Sommer, humaniste et grammairien, 1822–1866, in: Le Vieux papier. Bulletin de la Société archéologique, historique et artistique pour l'étude de la vie et des moeurs d'autrefois , Paris 1959, pp. 127-131
  • Jean-Claude Polet (Ed.) Patrimoine littéraire européen. Index général , Brussels 2000 sv

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personal data
SURNAME Summer, Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sommer, Jean-Édouard; Summer, Jean Edouard Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French classical philologist, Romance scholar, translator, grammarian and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy
DATE OF DEATH July 1866
Place of death Paris