Bernard Bray
Bernard Bray (born April 9, 1925 in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda , Département Pyrénées-Orientales , † June 21, 2010 in Paris ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar.
life and work
Bray studied in Lyon, Lausanne and Paris, taught at the Lycée Lyautey in Casablanca (1949-1954), was the Agrégation de lettres in 1953 and was cultural attaché to the Embassy of the French Republic in the Netherlands from 1954 to 1964. From 1954 to 1958 he was an assistant at the University of Amsterdam and from 1958 to 1966 he was a lecturer at the University of Utrecht . He received his doctorate in 1965 at the University of Amsterdam with the thesis (Ed.) Jean Chapelain, Soixante-dix-sept Lettres inédites à Nicolas Heinsius, 1649-1658 (The Hague 1965) and in 1966 became professor of French literature at the University of Utrecht. From 1970 to 1993 he was the successor of Claude Digeon full professor for French literary studies at the University of Saarland and director of the Saarbrücken Institut d 'Etudes Françaises. Bray was an external member of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten .
Bray was Knight of the Legion of Honor (1979) and officer of the Ordre national du Mérite (1993).
Other works
- L'Expression de l'inquiétude dans le jeune roman français. Openbare les Gegeven bij het aanvaarden van het lectoraat in de franse lettekunde aan de Rijkuniversiteit te Utrecht op 13 maart 1959, Groningen 1959
- (with Sem Dresden and Lein Geschiere) La Notion de structure, The Hague 1961
- L'Art de la lettre amoureuse des manuels aux romans (1550–1700), The Hague 1967 (inaugural lecture University of Utrecht June 5, 1967)
- (Ed. With Jochen Schlobach and Jean Varloot ) La Correspondance littéraire de Grimm et de Meister 1754–1813. Colloque de Sarrebruck, February 22-24, 1974, Paris 1976
- (Ed. With Isabelle Landy-Houillon) Lettres portugaises. Lettres d'une Péruvienne. Autres romans d'amour par lettres, Paris 1983, 1990, 1998, 2001 (Garnier-Flammarion 379)
- (Ed.) Colette. Nouvelles approches critiques. Actes du Colloque de Sarrebruck, 22-23 June 1984, Paris 1986
- ( Edmé Boursault , Treize lettres amoureuses d'une dame à un cavalier, Paris 1994
- (Ed. With Christoph Strosetzki) Art de la lettre, art de la conversation à l'époque classique en France. Actes du colloque de Wolfenbüttel, October 1991, Paris 1995
- (Ed.) Jean Chapelain, Les lettres authentiques à Nicolas Heinsius, 1649–1672. Une amitié érudite entre France et Hollande, Paris 2005
- Epistoliers de l'âge classique. L'art de la correspondance chez Madame de Sévigné et quelques prédécesseurs, contemporains et héritiers. Etudes revues, réunies et présentées avec la collaboration de Odile Richard-Pauchet, Tübingen 2007
literature
- Sur la plume des vents. Mélanges de littérature épistolaire offerts à Bernard Bray, ed. by Ulrike Michalowsky, Paris 1996
- Le Monde July 3rd 2010
- Odile Richard-Pauchet, “In memoriam lettre à Bernard Bray”, in: Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France 111, 2011, pp. 739–741 (www.cairn.info/revue-d-histoire-litteraire-de- la-france-2011-3-page-739.htm)
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernard Bray in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bray, Bernard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bray, Bernard Alain |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romance studies and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 2010 |
| Place of death | Paris |