Alfred Ernout

Alfred Ernout (born October 30, 1879 in Lille , † June 16, 1973 in Paris ) was a French classical scholar .

Alfred Ernout attended school in his native Lille, where he then studied Classical Philology and Linguistics at the University of Lille and graduated in 1901 with the state examination ( Agrégation ). His academic teachers included Émile Thomas , Bernard Haussoullier , Louis Havet, and Antoine Meillet . In 1905 he obtained his diploma at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris and received his doctorate there in 1908. In the same year Ernout became a professor in Troyes , in 1913 he moved to the University of Lille as a university lecturer (Maître), where he became a professor in 1920. In 1924 he went to the Sorbonne as Maître de conférences , and in 1928 he became a professor there. From 1925 he was also director at the École pratique des hautes études. In 1946 Ernout became a professor at the Collège de France . He was succeeded there in 1952 by Pierre Courcelle .

Ernout dealt primarily with Latin studies . He researched both the Latin language and Latin literature . He wrote several monographs on both Latin and other Italian languages , with Antoine Meillet he wrote an etymological dictionary of the Latin language, which is still fundamental today , and with François Thomas a work on Latin syntax . For the latter work, for example, Ernout consulted Plautus but also vulgar and church Latin works in order to be able to trace the development of “classical” Latinity. He researched archaic Latin as well as Umbrian or the inscriptions from Praeneste . He submitted critical editions by Plautus, Petron and Pliny the Elder . Among other things, he edited the Revue de Philology .

literature

• Hans-Ulrich Berner, Pierluigi Leone Gatti: Ernout, Alfred. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 374 f.