André Devaux (Romanist)

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André Devaux (born June 20, 1845 in Saint-Didier-de-la-Tour, Département Isère , † January 31, 1910 in Rome ) was a French Latinist and Romanist .

life and work

The Abbé (later Monseigneur) Devaux taught Latin literature at the Faculté catholique des lettres of Lyon from 1877 , became dean in 1898 and rector of his university in 1906. He received his doctorate in Grenoble in 1892 with the Romance Thèse de doctorat Essai sur la langue vulgaire du Dauphiné septentrional au Moyen Age (Paris 1892) and left text editions and dialectological studies edited by Jules Ronjat , Antonin Duraffour and Pierre Gardette .

Other works

During his lifetime

  • De l'étude des patois du Haut-Dauphiné. Grenoble 1889
  • Etymologies lyonnaises. In: Bulletin de la Société de geographie. Lyon 1900

Posthumously

  • Comptes consulaires de Grenoble en langue vulgaire (1338–1340), publiés avec un lexique et un index des noms propres par Mgr A. Devaux. Completed and with an introduction by Jules Ronjat . Montpellier 1912

With Antonin Duraffour and Pierre Gardette

  • Les patois du Dauphiné. Lyon 1935
  • Dictionnaire des patois des Terres Froides. Mâcon 1935
  • Atlas linguistique des Terres Froides. Lyon 1935

literature

  • Sever Pop : La dialectologie. Löwen 1950, pp. 227-234
personal data
SURNAME Devaux, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Devaux, Mgr André; Devaux, Mgr A .; Devaux, François-André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies and dialectologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Didier-de-la-Tour
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1910
Place of death Rome