Adolphe Regnier

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Jacques-Auguste-Adolphe Regnier (born July 7, 1804 in Mainz , then capital of the Département du Mont-Tonnerre , † October 20, 1884 in Fontainebleau ) was a French philologist .

life and work

Adolphe Regnier was a teacher at various higher education institutions in France since 1823, so from 1838 teacher of eloquence at the Collège de France and from 1841 to 1843 teacher of German language and literature at the École normal supérieure in Paris . In 1843 he was appointed tutor of the Count of Paris by Louis-Philippe , whom he also accompanied into exile after the February Revolution in 1848 . Back in Paris in 1853, he was accepted into the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1855 and in 1862 proposed by the Institut de France as professor of Sanskrit at the Collège de France, which he did not accept. From 1873 he held the position of librarian at Fontainebleau Castle . He died in Fontainebleau on October 20, 1884, at the age of 80.

Regnier made a great contribution to the knowledge of the German language and literature in France through the Cours complet de langue allemande (with Lebas, 7 vols., 1830-33) and through the translation of Goethe's Iphigenie (1843) as well as all of Schiller's works (8th century) Vol., 1860–62, with biography). He achieved particular fame through the Étude sur l'idiome des Védas et les origines de la langue sanscrite (first printed in the Journal asiatique , separately Paris 1855) and an edition of the Prâtiçâkhya des Rigveda (3 vols., Paris 1857-59, with French Translation, commentary and an étude sur la grammaire védique ). He also translated Euripides ' Hekabe (1838) and wrote the linguistic work Traité de la formation et de la composition des mots dans la langue grecque (1855).

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SURNAME Regnier, Adolphe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Regnier, Jacques-Auguste-Adolphe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1884
Place of death Fontainebleau