Auguste Longnon
Auguste Honoré Longnon (born October 18, 1844 in Paris ; † July 13, 1911 ibid) was a French historian , Romanist , Medievalist and toponomist .
Life
Longnon was an apprentice cobbler and self-taught. He studied at the École pratique des hautes études and was hired as a state archivist on recommendation in 1871, although he had not gone through the obligatory École nationale des chartes . Alfred Maury elected him in 1889 as his deputy professor at the Collège de France , where he taught from 1892 until his death on the chair of historical geography of France. In 1897 he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres .
Longnon published numerous historical documents, chartes, rôles, Kartularien , Diozesanlisten (pouilles) and Urbare (polyptiques) from the medieval French history.
Works
history
- Etude sur les pagi de la Gaule , Paris 1869–1872, Geneva 1970
- (Ed.) Paris pendant la domination anglaise (1420-1436), Paris 1878
- Géographie de la gaule au VIe siècle , Paris 1878
- Atlas historique de la France depuis César jusqu'à nos jours , Paris 1882–1889, 1907, 1912
- (Ed.) Documents relatifs au comté de Champagne et de Brie 1172-1361 , 3 vols., Paris 1901-1914
- Origines et formation de la nationalité française , Paris 1912 (introduced by Charles Maurras )
- La formation de l'unité française. Leçons professées au Collège de France en 1889-1890 , ed. by H.-François Delaborde, Paris 1922, 1969
Toponomics
- Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Marne comprenant les noms de lieux anciens et modern , Paris 1891
- Les noms de lieu de la France. Leur origine, leur signification, leurs transformations . Résumé des conférences de toponomastique générale faites à l'École pratique des hautes études (Section des sciences historiques et philologiques), ed. by Paul Marichal and Léon Mirot, Paris 1920–1929, 1968, 1979, 1999 (preface by Jacques Chaurand ); New York 1973
Literary history
- Étude biographique sur François Villon, d'après les documents inédits conservés aux Archives nationales , Paris 1877
- (Ed. With François Bonnardot ) Le saint voyage de Jherusalem du Seigneur d'Anglure , Paris 1878, New York 1966
- (Ed. With Paul Meyer ) Raoul de Cambrai. Chanson de geste , Paris 1882
- (Ed.) Oeuvres complètes de François Villon , Paris 1892
- (Ed.) Jean Froissart , Méliador. Roman comprenant les poésies lyriques de Wenceslas de Bohême, duc de Luxembourg et de Brabant , 3 vols., Paris 1895–1899, New York 1965
- (Ed. With G. Bonet-Maury) Alfred Maury , Croyances et légend du Moyen âge , Paris 1896, Geneva 1974
- (Ed.) François Villon, Œuvres , Paris 1911, 2nd edition, reviewed by Lucien Foulet , Paris 1914, 1919; 3rd edition Paris 1923; 4th edition Paris 1926, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1958, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1992 (Les classiques français du Moyen age 2)
literature
- L. Gallois, [Obituary] in: Annales de geographie 20, 1911, p. 458
- Georges Perrot : Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Auguste-Honoré Longnon , Paris 1913
Web links
- Literature by and about Auguste Longnon in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Longnon, Auguste |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Longnon, Auguste Honoré |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian, Romanist , Medievalist and toponomist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1844 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1911 |
Place of death | Paris |