Élie Decahors

Élie Decahors (born January 7, 1885 in Lauzerte ; † May 7, 1961 ibid) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar .

Life

Decahors was a Catholic priest and high school teacher in Montauban . He completed his habilitation in 1932 at the University of Aix-Marseille with a dissertation from Maurice de Guérin . Essai de biographie psychologique (Paris 1932) and Le Centaure et la Bacchante. Les poèmes en prose de Maurice de Guérin et leurs sources antiques (Toulouse 1932) and was professor of French language and literature at the Catholic Institute of Toulouse from 1930 to 1954 , and dean from 1952 to 1954 . In 1933 he founded the magazine L'Amitié Guérinienne from which in 1968 the association Les Amis des Guérin emerged .

For supporting the Resistance Decahors in 1944 by the Gestapo arrested and his colleague Joseph Salvat in the Neuengamme concentration camp abducted, he survived because he was classified as a celebrity.

Works

• Dictionnaire français-latin, Paris 1924, 1927, 1948, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1968, 1971, 1978, 1997 (counterpart to A. Gariel, Dictionnaire latin-français, Paris 1922, most recently 1997)
• Trois messages: Maurice Barrès, André Gide, François Mauriac, Toulouse 1939 (lecture in Toulouse 1938)
• Un maître de l'heure. Charles Péguy, Toulouse 1942
• Histoire de la littérature française 1, Le Moyen Age, Paris 1949
• Histoire de la littérature française 2, Le XVIe siècle, Paris 1949, 1962
• (Ed. With André Ferran [1891–1953]) Morceaux choisis de la littérature française. Tome 1, Le Moyen Age, Paris 1949

literature

• Jean Fourié, Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue d'oc de 1800 à nos jours, 2nd edition, Aix-en-Provence 2009 sv
• Qui était qui. XXe siècle, Levallois-Perret 2005 sv

Web links

• Literature by and about Élie Decahors in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Élie Decahors at the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques