Arthur Piaget
Arthur Piaget (born November 25, 1865 in Yverdon , † April 15, 1952 in Neuchâtel ) was a Swiss Romance scholar , historian and archivist .
life and work
Arthur Piaget was the son of Frédéric Piaget, a director of a watch factory.
Piaget graduated from high school in Lausanne and studied in Neuchâtel and Paris . He received his doctorate in Geneva in 1888 on Martin Le Franc, Prévot de Lausanne (Lausanne 1888, Caen 1993) and then studied history and philology with Gabriel Monod and Gaston Paris (diploma 1890) at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris . From 1895 to 1938 he was the first professor for Romance languages and literatures at the University (until 1909 Academy) Neuchâtel and 1909–1911 its first rector . From 1898 to 1935 he headed the seminar for Reformation history he founded at the theological faculty and worked as canton archivist. From 1902 to 1949 he edited the magazine Musée neuchâtelois (today Revue historique neuchâteloise ).
Arthur Piaget married the teacher Rebecca Suzanne Jackson in 1895. Their son was the psychologist Jean Piaget .
Other works
Romance Studies
- (together with Emile Picot) Oeuvres poétiques de Guillaume Alexis , 3 vols., Paris 1896–1908
- La belle dame sans merci d'Alain Chartier et ses imitations , Paris 1905
- Le Miroir aux Dames, poème inédit du XVe siècle , Leipzig 1908
- Le congié pris du siècle séculier. Poème du XVe siècle , Neuchâtel / Paris 1916
- Pierre de Nesson et ses œuvres , Paris 1925, Geneva 1977
- Oton de Grandson. Sa vie et ses poésies , Lausanne 1941
- Alain Chartier: La belle dame sans mercy et les poésies lyriques . Edition publiée par Arthur Piaget. Lexique établi par Robert Léon Wagner, 2nd edition, Lille / Paris 1949
- (Ed.) Martin Le Franc: Le champion des dames , Lausanne 1968
history
- Documents inédits sur la Réformation dans le Pays de Neuchâtel , Vol. 1, Neuchâtel 1909
- Les actes de la dispute de Lausanne 1536 , Neuchâtel 1928
- (with Gabrielle Berthoud) Notes sur le livre des martyrs de Jean Crespin , Neuchâtel 1930
literature
- Pages d'histoire neuchâteloise réunies et publiées par la Société d'histoire et d'archéologie du canton de Neuchâtel et le Musée neuchâtelois à l'occasion du 70e anniversaire de l'auteur , Neuchâtel 1935
- Mélanges d'histoire neuchâteloise offerts à Arthur Piaget à l'occasion de son quatre-vingtième anniversaire , Neuchâtel 1945
- Anne-Marguerite Fryba-Reber: De Gustav Gröber à Arthur Piaget (1872–1895). L'institutionnalisation de la philologie romane en Suisse , in: Portraits de médiévistes suisses (1850–2000). Une profession au fil du temps , ed. by Ursula Bähler and Richard Trachsler with Larissa Birrer, Geneva 2009, pp. 33–60, here: 51 ff
- Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet: Arthur Piaget (1865-1952). L'invention des XIVe et XVe siècles en littérature , in: Portraits de médiévistes suisses (1850–2000). Une profession au fil du temps , ed. by Ursula Bähler and Richard Trachsler with Larissa Birrer, Geneva 2009, pp. 217–234
- Alexandre Dafflon: Piaget, Arthur. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
- Literature by and about Arthur Piaget in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piaget, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Romance philologist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yverdon |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1952 |
| Place of death | Neuchâtel |