André Compan

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André Compan (* 1922 ; † December 16, 2010 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer ) was a French Romance scholar and Occitanist .

life and work

Compan was first a high school teacher in Cannes and Nice . On the basis of the Loi Deixonne of 1951, he became involved in teaching the regional language of Nissart . He received his doctorate in 1969 at the University of Nice (founded in 1965) with the Thèse d'Université (Ed.) La crounica nissarda de Jean Badat (1516-1567), avec introduction, notes, commentaires et glossaire and placed in 1969 at the University of Aix-Marseille the Thèse Évolution demographique et humaine du Haut-Comté de Nice sous la Restauration sarde 1814-1847 . He completed his habilitation in Paris in 1975 with the Thèse Étude d'anthroponymie provençale. Les noms de personne dans le comté de Nice aux XIIIe, XIVe et XVe siècles (Lille / Paris 1976, Nice 2004) and became a professor in Nice. He was Majoral des Félibrige . In 2008 he received the 48th Grand Prix littéraire de Provence (part: Provençal language).

Other works

  • (Ed.) Les OEuvres de [Rosalinde-Joseph] Rancher [1785-1843]. La Nemaïda, La Mouostra raubada, Lou Fablié nissart, Nîmes 1954 (Publications spéciales de la Revue des Langues Romanes)
  • Grammaire niçoise, Nice 1965 (preface by Charles Rostaing )
  • Glossaire raisonné de la langue niçoise, Nice 1967, 1982 (preface by Robert Davril)
  • La Cigale du souvenir. Eloge du majoral Frédéric Mistral neveu, 1893-1968, Toulon 1970
  • (Ed.) Anthologie de la littérature niçoise, Toulon 1971
  • Histoire de Nice et de son comté, 2 vols., Toulon 1973, 1978, 1982
  • Escarchadura. Pouema, Toulon 1975
  • (Ed.) Le Comté de Nice, Paris 1980
  • Étude sur l'origine des noms des communes dans les Alpes-Maritimes, Nice 1982, 1995
  • Illustration du nissart et du provençal, Berre-l'Etang 1990 (collection of articles)
  • (with others) Alpes-maritimes, Paris 1993

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personal data
SURNAME Compan, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist and Occitanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1922
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2010
Place of death Beaulieu-sur-Mer