Auguste Brachet

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Auguste Brachet (born July 29, 1845 in Tours , † 1898 in Cannes ) was a French Romanist.

life and work

Brachet was a self-taught Romance artist. He turned to Gaston Paris and attended the École des Chartes in 1864. He was employed at the Bibliothèque Nationale, in 1869 lecturer at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and in 1872 professor of German literature at the École polytechnique. He translated part of Friedrich Diez's grammar from German into French. For ten years (from 1865 to 1875) he published important and successful Romance works, then he married, went on a trip to Italy, and died there. He died of tuberculosis.

Works

  • Étude sur Bruneau de Tours, trouvère du XIIIe siècle, Paris / Leipzig 1865
  • You rôle des voyelles latines atones dans les langues romanes, Leipzig 1866
  • Grammaire historique de la langue française, Paris 1867, numerous editions up to 1911 (English: Oxford 1868, 1879, edited by Paget Toynbee, Oxford 1896) [Foreword by Emile Littré, 1801-1881]
  • Dictionnaire des doublets ou Doubles formes de la langue française, Paris 1868
  • Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française, Paris 1870 (English: 1873) (Introduction signed in Vouvray in September 1868) [Foreword by Emile Egger, 1813-1885]
  • (Translator together with Gaston Paris and Alfred Morel-Fatio) Friedrich Diez, Grammaire des langues romanes, 3 vols., 3rd edition, Paris 1874-1876, 3 vols., Geneva / Marseille 1973
  • Morceaux choisis des grands écrivains du XVIe siècle, accompagnés d'une grammaire et d'un dictionnaire de la langue du XVIe siècle, Paris 1874
  • Nouvelle Grammaire française fondée sur l'histoire de la langue, Paris 1874
  • L'Italie qu'on voit et l'Italie qu'on ne voit pas ..., Paris 1881
  • (together with J. Dussouchet) Cours de grammaire française, fondé sur l'histoire de la langue, théorie et exercices, Paris 1883
  • Brachet et Dussouchet. Nouveau Cours de grammaire française, Paris 1887 (numerous editions up to 1910)

literature

  • Ursula Bähler, Gaston Paris et la philologie romane, Geneva 2004, p. 105 A 242
  • Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907) dedicated the poem " A Auguste Brachet " to him (full text on Wikisource)

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personal data
SURNAME Brachet, Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Tours
DATE OF DEATH 1898
Place of death Cannes