Albert Counson

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Albert Counson (born March 8, 1880 in Francorchamps , Stavelot , † August 15, 1933 in Liège ) was a Belgian Romanist .

life and work

Counson was a student in Stavelot and Verviers and studied in Liège with Maurice Wilmotte and Godefroid Kurth . He received his doctorate in 1901 on Malherbe et ses sources (Liège 1904) and went to Paris, Florence and Halle , where he was a lecturer at Hermann Suchier from 1902 to 1907 . Then he was first Chargé de cours in Ghent , from 1919 full professor (1924-1925 also dean), but after 1914 no longer published strictly subject-specific. His admiration for Germany suffered under the World War, his glorification of the French language fell on deaf ears in Ghent, and his social utopian scientism, fed by the Enlightenment, was increasingly at odds with world developments. From 1922 he was a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique. Counson, who lived without a family, died of a brain tumor at the age of 53. He left a library of 15,000 volumes.

Prix ​​Albert Counson

The Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique has been awarding the Romance-oriented Prix Albert Counson every five years since 1940 (previous winners: Maurice Wilmotte , Louis Remacle , Gustave Charlier , Fernand Desonay , Julia Bastin , Joseph Hanse , Maurice Grevisse , Emilie Noulet , Maurice Piron , Roland Mortier , Albert Henry , Raymond Trousson , Roland Beyen , Jacques Marx , André Goosse ).

Other works

  • (Translator from Old French) Aucassin et Nicolette. Texts critique accompagné de paradigmes et d'un lexique, 5e édition, traduite en français, ed. by Hermann Suchier, Paderborn 1903
  • Dante en France, Paris 1906
  • Mélanges d'histoire littéraire, Louvain 1909-1910
  • La Pensée novels. Essai sur l'esprit des littératures dans les nations latines, Louvain 1911
  • Les Paroles littéraires de la langue française. Etude de linguistique littéraire, in: Germanisch-Romanische monthly 5, 1913, pp. 155–214
  • De Babel à Paris ou L'universalité de la langue française, Brussels 1925
  • La Civilization. Action de la science sur la loi, Paris 1929

literature

  • André Vandegans in: Nouvelle Biographie Nationale , Vol. 2, pp. 91–94 (with literature)
  • Catalog de la bibliothèque de feu Albert Counson 1880-1933, précédé d'une introduction par Paul Faider. Première partie. Encyclopédie, philologie et littérature. 2nd game. Philosophy, sciences religieuses, sciences sociales, beaux-arts, Brussels 1933, 1934

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personal data
SURNAME Counson, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Francorchamps , Stavelot
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1933
Place of death Liege