Auguste Doutrepont
Auguste Doutrepont (born December 6, 1865 in Herve , † March 22, 1929 in Liège ) was a Belgian Romanist and Wallonist .
life and work
Auguste Doutrepont (not to be confused with his younger brother Georges Doutrepont ) studied in Liège with Maurice Wilmotte and after the Agrégation (1888) in Florence with Pio Rajna and Matteo Giulio Bartoli (1873-1946), in Paris with Gaston Paris and Jules Gilliéron , as well as at the University of Halle with Hermann Suchier . From 1891 until his death he was Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Liège (successor: Maurice Delbouille ). He worked with Jean Haust on the project of a Dictionnaire général de la langue wallonne , which turned out to be impracticable. From its founding in 1920, he was a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique.
Works
- (Ed.) La Clef d'amors. Texts critique, Halle as 1890, Geneva 1975
- (Translator with Georges Doutrepont ) Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke , Grammaire des langues romanes, Vols. 2–4, Paris 1895–1906, Geneva / Marseille 1974
- (Ed.) Les Noëls wallons, Liège 1909; Nouvelle édition enrichie de nombreux textes inédits, établie à l'aide des notes d'Auguste Doutrepont par Maurice Delbouille , Paris / Liège 1938
literature
- Maurice Delbouille in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 8, 1929, pp. 1093-1094
Web links
- Literature by and about Auguste Doutrepont in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.arllfb.be/composition/membres/doutrepontauguste.html (with picture)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Doutrepont, Auguste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian Romanist and Wallonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herve |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1929 |
| Place of death | Liege |