Armel Hugh Diverres

Armel Hugh Diverres (born September 4, 1914 in Liverpool , † May 27, 1998 in Swansea ) was a British Romanist .

life and work

Diverres, who had a Welsh mother and a Breton father, studied in Swansea until 1936 (where his father was a lecturer in French from 1923 to 1946), then in Rennes until 1938 . There he wrote a master's thesis on Paul Féval for the University of Wales , to which he dedicated an exhibition in Rennes 50 years later. After the war he went to Eugène Vinaver in Manchester , where he was a lecturer in French until 1954 . He completed his habilitation in 1950 with La Chronique métrique attribuée à Geffroy de Paris. Texts publié avec introduction et glossaire (Strasbourg 1956). Then he went to Aberdeen and was from 1958 to 1974 as the successor to Frederick Charles Roe owner of the Carnegie Chair of French. From 1974 to 1981 he was Professor of French in Swansea for seven years .

Diverres was President of the International Arthurian Society from 1981 to 1983.

Other works

• (Ed.): Jean Froissart: Voyage en Béarn. Manchester 1953.
• (Ed.): Alfred de Vigny: Chatterton. London 1967.
• (Ed.): An Anglo-Norman life of Saint Melor. Wales, 1967.
• French at the universities. Lecture at University College of Swansea on December 2, 1975. Swansea 1976.
• in collaboration: Paul Féval, 1816–1887. Exposition, Bibliothèque municipale. Rennes, September 10-10. October 1987.

literature

• PB Grout, RA Lodge, CE Pickford, EKC Varty (Ed.): The Legend of Arthur in the Middle Ages. Studies presented to AH Diverres by colleagues, pupils, and friends. Cambridge 1983 (with biography and bibliography).

Web links

• Obituary by RA Lodge
• Literature by and about Armel Hugh Diverres in the WorldCat bibliographic database