Alphonse Roque-Ferrier

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Alphonse Roque-Ferrier (born August 1, 1844 in Montpellier ; † June 18, 1907 there ) was a French Romance and Occitanist .

life and work

Alphonse Roque-Ferrier (Occitan: Anfós Ròca-Ferrièr) was a founding member of the Société pour l'Étude des Langues Romanes (later: Société des langues romanes ) in 1869 and its secretary from 1874 to 1882, and also an avid contributor to her magazine Revue des Langues Romanes , which appeared in Montpellier since 1870, as the first Romance journal ever (followed in 1872 by Romania , founded in Paris by Paul Meyer (Romanist) and Gaston Paris , and in 1877 and 1883 by the German journals Zeitschrift für Romansische Philologie und Romansforschung ). From 1879 he worked as a secretary in Félibrige .

From 1883 Roque-Ferrier (with Charles de Tourtoulon ) was the founding editor of the monthly magazine Revue du monde latin until 1895 (whereby Latin is to be understood as "neo-latin", ie as Romansh). The feeling of togetherness of Romansh-speaking southern Europe expressed in the word Romansh also resulted in the foundation of the poetry school "École romane" by Jean Moréas in 1891 .

In 1887 Roque-Ferrier met Hugo Schuchardt , who was traveling through southern France and who had already corresponded with him. From 1888 Roque-Ferrier withdrew from Félibrige and resigned in 1891. He founded the magazine Le Félibrige Latin in 1890 (in competition with Félibrige) . Revue mensuelle des oeuvres et des faits qui intéressent le Félibrige et ses diverse maintenances (until 1903) and in 1891 the organization of the same name. Roque-Ferrier was, along with Charles de Tourtoulon and William Bonaparte-Wyse, one of the most decisive representatives of the Pan-Romanic movement ( L'idée latine ) within the Félibrige. With the onset of World War I, this movement came to a standstill.

Roque-Ferrier's tomb is in the Saint-Lazare cemetery in Montpellier.

Works (selection)

  • (Ed.) Poésies languedociennes de Louis-Diogène Guiraldenc (1840-1869) , Montpellier 1884, 1888
  • (Ed.) Occitania. Revue mensuelle , Montpellier 1888–1889
  • Mélanges de critique littéraire et de philologie. Le Midi de la France, ses poètes et ses lettrés, de 1874 à 1890 , Paris 1892
  • (Contributor) Antonio Restori, Histoire de la littérature provençale , Montpellier 1894
  • Poésies languedociennes d'Octavien Bringuier. Etude sur la renaissance montpelliéraine , Montpellier 1896, Geneva 1970

literature

  • Jean-Marie Petit, Trois figures de la période montpelliéraine de la renaissance occitane du XIX siècle: Charles de Tourtoulon, Louis-Alphonse Roque-Ferrier, Camille Chabaneau , in: Revue des Langues Romanes 89, 1985, pp. 93-121

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personal data
SURNAME Roque-Ferrier, Alphonse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roque-Ferrier, Louis-Alphonse; Ròca-Ferrièr, Anfós
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist and Occitanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpellier
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1907
Place of death Montpellier