Amédée Beaujean

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Amédée Beaujean (* 1821 in Saint-Fargeau , Burgundy , † 1888 in Paris ) was a French classical philologist, Romance scholar and lexicographer.

life and work

Beaujean graduated from the école normal supérieure in Paris (born in 1841) and was a teacher at the well-known high school Lycée Louis-le-Grand and a school inspector. In 1874 he shortened the huge French dictionary by Émile Littré to one volume (including proper nouns appendix) and thus went down in the history of lexicography. His text is still sold today.

Works

  • Brevarium historiae graecae. Ouvrage composé pour l'enseignement simultané du latin et de l'histoire grecque avec un lexique et deux cartes geographiques , Paris 1855, 1860
  • (Editor) Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française. Abrégé du dictionnaire de Littré, Paris 1875 (known as "Littré-Beaujean" or "Petit Littré", numerous editions under different titles up to the present day, also edited by Géraud Venzac , Paris 1958)
  • Le nouveau petit littré . Texts revu, augmenté et complété sous la direction de Jean Pruvost et de Claude Blum. Nouvelle éd. du "Petit Littré", Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84431-288-8 .

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