Albert Henry

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Albert Henry (born March 20, 1910 in Gembloux -Grand-Manil, † February 22, 2002 near Nancy ) was a Belgian Romanist and Medievalist.

life and work

Henry went to school in Namur . From 1928 to 1932 he studied Romance and Classical Philology at the Université libre de Bruxelles . After military service and a short period as a high school teacher, he studied in Paris from 1934 together with Georges Straka and Gianfranco Contini under Mario Roques, Oscar Bloch, Georges Millardet, Gustave Cohen and Joseph Bédier . Stays in Perugia followed in 1936 and 1937 . From April 1940 to May 1945 he and Maurice Leroy spent five years as a prisoner of war in the officers' camps in Weilburg, Tibor, Prenzlau, Fischbeck and Lübeck. From 1946 to 1958 he taught as a professor in Ghent , from 1958 to 1976 in Brussels . Saint-John Perse was on friendly terms with him.

Henry was an avowed Walloon , which he expanded poetically ( Offrande wallone , Andenne 1946, created in Prenzlauer Gefangenschaft, 2nd edition 1962, 3rd edition 1990) and linguistically ( Wallon et Wallonie. Esquisse d'une histoire sémantique , Brussels 1965) 1974 and 1990 udT Esquisse d'une histoire des mots wallon et Wallonie ).

Henry was a member of the Belgian Academy , the Swedish Academy , the Medieval Academy of America and the Accademia dei Lincei . The Institut de France honored two of his books.

Other works

Editorial activity

Saint John Perse

  • Amers de Saint-John Perse. Une poésie du mouvement , Neuchâtel 1963
  • Amitié du Prince de Saint-John Perse, Paris 1979
  • Anabase de Saint-John Perse, Paris 1983
  • Saint-John Perse: Nocturne , Paris 1985
  • Lettres d'Alexis Leger [Saint-John Perse] à Gabriel Frizeau (1906–1912), Brussels 1993

Villon

  • (together with Jean Rychner) Le Testament Villon , 2 vols., Geneva 1974
  • (together with Jean Rychner) Le Lais Villon et les Poèmes variés , 2 vols., Geneva 1977
  • (together with Jean Rychner) Le Testament Villon, le Lais Villon et les Poèmes variés. Index , Geneva 1985

Medieval texts

  • Adenet le Roi, Berte as grans piés , Geneva 1982
  • Chrestomathie de la littérature en ancien français , 2 vols., Bern 1953, 7th edition 1994
  • L'oeuvre lyrique d'Henri III, duc de Brabant , Bruges 1948
  • Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas de Jehan Bodel , Paris / Brussels 1962, also 1965, Geneva 1981
  • Les oeuvres d'Adenet le Roi , 5 parts in 6 volumes, Bruges 1951, 1953, 1956, Paris / Brussels 1963, Brussels 1971
  • Sarrasin: Le roman du Hem , Brussels / Paris 1939

Further

  • Testi valloni antichi e moderni , Modena 1940

Monographs and collective publications

  • Langage et poésie chez Paul Valéry. Avec un lexique des œuvres en vers , Paris 1952
  • Les grands poèmes andalous de Federico Garcia Lorca , Ghent 1958
  • Etudes de lexicologie française et galloromane , Paris / Brussels 1960
  • Etudes de syntaxe expressive (ancien français et français modern) , Paris / Brussels 1960, 2nd edition 1977
  • C'était il ya des lunes. Etudes de syntaxe française , Paris 1968
  • Automne. Etudes de philologie, de linguistique et de stylistique, rassemblées et publiées par des collègues, des élèves et des amis de l'auteur , Gembloux 1977
  • Métonymie et métaphore , Brussels 1971, 2nd edition 1984
  • Lecture de quelques Illuminations [de Rimbaud], Brussels 1989, revised udT Contributions à la lecture de Rimbaud , Brussels 1998
  • Contribution à l'étude du langage œnologique en langue d'oïl (XIIe – XVe siècle), Brussels 1996

literature

  • Homage to Albert Henry , ed. by André Guyaux and Marc Wimet, Brussels 2004
  • Pierre Jodogne: Albert Henry , in: Académie royale de Belgique. Annuaire 2003 , pp. 39-69
  • Marie-Guy Boutier: Albert Henry (1910–2002) , in: Estudis romànics 26, 2004, pp. 474–480 ( online ; PDF; 44 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Henry, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Gembloux -Grand Manil
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2002
Place of death at Nancy