Adolphe Terracher

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Adolphe Terracher (born February 16, 1881 in Vindelle (Charente), † April 2, 1955 in Vichy ) was a French Romanist .

life and work

Terracher was a pupil of Jules Gilliéron at the age of 21 Agrégé and enjoyed a scholarship from the Thiers Foundation from 1904 to 1907. Then he was a lecturer in Uppsala . He completed his habilitation with the two theses Les aires morphologiques dans les parlers populaires du nord-ouest de l'Angoumois 1800–1900 (Paris 1912–1914) and La Tradition manuscrite de “La Chevalerie Vivien” (Paris 1912). From 1910 to 1913 he was professor of French literature at the Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, from 1913 to 1919 professor of French at the University of Liverpool and from 1919 professor at the University of Strasbourg . From 1925 to 1932 he was rector in Dijon , from 1932 to 1938 in Bordeaux and from 1938 in Strasbourg. In this function he relocated the University of Strasbourg to Clermont-Ferrand in 1939 , from where it did not return until 1944, after having withstood German pressure up to then and having experienced a raid in 1943 that led some of the professors to the concentration camp. Terracher was from December 19, 1940 to January 2, 1944 State Secretary or Secretary General for Education in the Vichy governments Laval , Flandin and Darlan , before he was replaced on German intervention. Because of this Vichy activity, he fell into the twilight of public opinion after the liberation of France and struggled to rehabilitate himself.

Terracher founded the magazine The French Quarterly in 1919 together with Gustave Rudler and in 1924 together with Oscar Bloch the magazine Revue de linguistique romane as well as the Société de Linguistique Romane , whose first president was Ferdinand Brunot .

Other works

  • (Ed.) La Chevalerie Vivien. Chanson de geste . I, Textes, Paris 1909, 1923

literature

  • John Orr : Louis Adolphe Terracher , in: French Studies 9, 1955, p. 382 ( online )
  • Albert Dauzat, in: Le Français Moderne 23, 1955, pp. 212, 692

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personal data
SURNAME Terracher, Adolphe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Terracher, Adolphe-Louis; Terracher, Louis-Adolphe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Vindelle (Charente)
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1955
Place of death Vichy