Aurélien Sauvageot

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Aurélien Sauvageot (born April 13, 1897 in Constantinople , † December 5, 1988 in Aix-en-Provence ) was a French Finnougrist , Romance scholar and linguist .

life and work

Sauvageot, who was in contact with Turkish and Greek as a child , went to Uppsala to study the Finno-Ugric languages as a student at the École Normale in October 1918 on the instructions of Antoine Meillet and from there to Finland from June to October 1919 (to Eemil Nestor Setälä ), finally to Hungary from 1923 to 1931, where he taught French at Loránd Eötvös University and studied Hungarian with Zoltán Gombocz (1877–1935) . In Paris he defended the two writings Recherches sur le vocabulaire des langues ouralo-altaïques (Budapest 1929) and L'Emploi de l'article en gotique (Paris 1929) and held the first chair at the Ecole nationale des langues orientales from 1931 to 1967 for Finno-Ugric languages ​​in France. Between 1941 and 1943 the Vichy regime removed him from his chair, but had to reinstate him in February 1943 under pressure from the Finnish and Hungarian embassies. During his removal he was accepted into the Hungarian Institute and worked as a translator from Finnish and Hungarian. In 1979 he became an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was also a foreign member of the Finnish Academy. A lecture hall at Budapest's Loránd Eötvös University bears his name.

Beyond his area of ​​expertise, Sauvageot made a name for himself in describing contemporary French and was involved in the important post-war enterprise of the “Français Fondamental”.

Other works

Finno-Ugric Studies

  • (together with Joseph Balossa and Marcel Benedek) Dictionnaire général français-hongrois et hongrois-français , 2 vols., Budapest 1932, 1937, 2nd edition 1942 (XII / 1180, VIII / 1361 pp.)
  • Découverte de la Hongrie , 1937
  • Esquisse de la langue finnoise , Paris 1946, 1949
  • Esquisse de la langue hongroise , 1951
  • Les anciens Finnois , 1960
  • Premier livre de hongrois , 1965, 1983
  • Histoire de la Finlande , 1968
  • L'édification de la langue hongroise , 1971
  • L'élaboration de la langue finnoise , 1973
  • Souvenirs de ma vie hongroise , 1988

French and general

  • Rencontre de l'Allemagne , Vincennes 1947
  • (together with Georges Gougenheim , René Michéa and Paul Rivenc) L'Élaboration du français élémentaire. Etude sur l'établissement d'un vocabulaire et d'une grammaire de base , Paris 1956, 2nd revised edition, under the title L'Élaboration du français fondamental , Paris 1964 (also 1971)
  • Les Procédés expressifs du français contemporain , Paris 1957
  • Français écrit, français parlé , Paris 1962
  • Portrait du vocabulaire français , Paris 1964
  • La Grammaire du français parlé , in: Le français dans le monde 57, 1968
  • Analysis du français parlé , Paris 1972
  • Français d'hier ou français de demain?, Paris 1978
  • La structure du langage (edited by Christian Touratier), Aix-en-Provence 1992

literature

  • Mélanges offerts à Aurélien Sauvageot pour son 75e anniversaire , ed. by J. Gergely, Jean-Luc Moreau, Jean Perrot and J. Erdődi, Paris 1971, Budapest 1972
  • Jean Perrot in: Revue d'Etudes françaises 12, 2007, pp. 295–307 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Sauvageot, Aurélien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Finnougrist, Romance philologist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1988
Place of death Aix-en-Provence