Antoine Cauchie

Antoine Cauchie , Latinized Antonius Caucius (* 1535 ; † 1600 ) was a French Romance philologist and grammarian.

life and work

Antoine Cauchie came from Picardy . In 1566 he went into exile as a Protestant and became a French teacher for the children of Heinrich Rantzau , and later of Friedrich II (Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf) and Philipp (Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf) . In this capacity he was in Heidelberg from 1570 and from 1582 to 1585.

Cauchie is best known for his Latin grammar of French, first published in 1570. It had five editions by 1586 and was reissued in 2001 with a French translation.

Works

• Antonii Caucii grammatica gallica suis partibus absolutior quam ullus ante hune diem ediderit, Paris 1570, Basel 1570
• Antonii Caucii Grammatica Gallica in 3rd lib. distributa. Ad Micolaum à Buckvvddum dedica Cum auctoris Epistola ad Martinum Barnecovium nobilem Danum, de sua grammatica, & prosodia Gallicana, Antwerp 1576, 1578
• Antonii Caucii Grammaticae gallicae libri tres , ad illustrissimos Holsatiae Duces. Grammatica, per me celtarum celebrat quoque Cimbria linguam, in patria illustres quam didicere Duces, Strasbourg 1586
• Grammaire française (1586), ed. by Colette Demaizière, Paris 2001 (Latin and French)
• Rudimenta Etymologiae Latinæ Quibus Rudiora Vocum Accidentia Explanantur Opera Antonii Caucii , Antwerp 1581

literature

• Colette Demaizière, La grammaire française au XVIème siècle. Les grammairiens picards , 2 vols., Lille 1983 (Thèse Paris IV, 1979)

Web links

• Literature by and about Antoine Cauchie in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Note on Cauchie's grammar in the Corpus de textes linguistiques fondamentaux (CTLF)
• Works (and digital copies) in the Bavarian State Library