Arthur Långfors
Arthur Isak Edvard Långfors (born January 12, 1881 in Rauma , † October 20, 1959 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish Romance studies , university rector and diplomat.
Life and works
Arthur Långfors went to school in Turku and studied in Helsinki with Werner Söderhjelm, in Paris with Gaston Paris , Paul Meyer and Joseph Bédier , and in Florence with Pio Rajna . In 1907 he received his doctorate with the publication of Li Regres Nostre Dame de Huon de Cambrai (Helsinki 1907) and taught at the University of Helsinki from 1908 . A diplomatic career took him from 1918 to Madrid and from 1920 to 1925 to Paris, where he also worked as a philologist with Alfred Jeanroy . From 1925 to 1929 he was Associate Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Helsinki, from 1929 to 1951 full professor (as successor to Axel Wallensköld ), next to that dean from 1932 to 1935, prorector from 1943 to 1945 and rector from 1945 to 1950.
Långfors was a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences (1920), the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris (1947) and (as successor to Emanuel Walberg ) the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique (1952), as well as the Accademia di Udine and the Mediaeval Academy of America. Since 1954 he was a corresponding member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans . He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Paris, Oslo and Glasgow.
Other works
- (Ed. With Werner Söderhjelm) La vie de saint Quentin, par Huon le Roi, de Cambrai, Helsinki 1909
- (Ed.) Le vair palefroi par Huon le Roi, Paris 1912, 1983
- (Ed.) Huon le Roi, de Cambrai: Œuvres, Paris 1913
- (Ed.) Le troubadour Guilhem de Cabestanh, Paris 1914, 1924
- (Ed.) Le roman de Fauvel par Gervais du Bus, Paris 1914-1919, New York 1968
- Les incipit des poèmes français antérieurs au XVIe siècle, Paris 1917, Geneva 1977
- (Ed. With Alfred Jeanroy ) Chansons satiriques et bachiques du XIIIe siècle, Paris 1921,1974
- (Ed.) Recueil général des jeux-partis français, Paris 1926
- (Ed. With Edward Järnström) Recueil de chansons pieuses du XIIIe siècle, Helsinki 1927
- (Ed.) Miracles de Gautier de Coinci, extraits du manuscrit de l'Ermitage, Helsinki 1937
- (Ed.) Deux recueils de sottes chansons, Helsinki 1945, Geneva 1977
literature
- À Arthur Långfors à l'occasion de son 50e anniversaire, in: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 32, 1931
- Commentationes philologicae in honorem Arthur Långfors. Helsinki 1942 (with list of publications)
Web links
- Literature by and about Arthur Långfors in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Biography (with picture).
- Éloge funèbre de M. Arthur Långfors, associé étranger de l'Académie.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Långfors, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Långfors, Arthur Isak Edvard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish Romance studies, university rector and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rauma |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1959 |
| Place of death | Helsinki |