André Béziat de Bordes

André Béziat de Bordes (born December 30, 1870 in Orthez , † 1924 ) was an American Romanist of French origin.

life and work

Béziat attended schools in Revel , Montauban and Castres . In 1891 he became a French teacher in Barcelona for a year. Then he went to the United States and was a French teacher at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia . There he married Kate Mills Bradley in 1895.

Béziat received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1899 and taught for one year each at Kalamazoo College and Columbia University . In 1901 he went to Paris to study for a year. In 1902 he became an instructor at the University of Michigan . From 1903 to 1906 he was Professor of Romance Languages at West Virginia University in Morgantown (West Virginia) , from 1906 to 1908 Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan and from 1908 Professor of French at the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans . [Further information is missing.]

Works

Elements of French. A practical course for high schools and colleges , Chicago 1899, 1907
(with William Morton Dey ) French Grammar , Richmond, Virginia 1927

literature

Alfred Isaac Roehm and Milton Lanning Shane, Laboratory manual for the Béziat French grammar , Richmond, Virginia 1927

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personal data
SURNAME	Béziat de Bordes, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American-French Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 30, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Orthez
DATE OF DEATH	1924