Charles-François Lhomond

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Monument to Charles François Lhomond by Eugène-Louis Lequesne in Chaulnes

Charles-François Lhomond (* 1727 in Chaulnes , Picardy , † December 31, 1794 in Paris ) was a French Latinist, Romance scholar , grammarian and educator.

life and work

Lhomond was a priest and prefect of the Sexta at the Collège du Cardinal Lemoine . After 25 years as a Latin and French teacher, he published textbooks. T. were used throughout the 19th century and achieved cult status. This applies in particular to his Latin textbook De Viris illustribus urbis Romae, a Romulo ad Augustum, ad usum sextae scholae , Paris 1779, which appeared in countless editions until the second half of the 20th century and of which a French translation was published in 1995 ( De Viris. Les grands hommes de Rome , traduit et présenté par Jacques Gaillard, Arles). It also applies to his Latin grammar ( Éléments de la grammaire latine , Paris 1779), the 63rd edition of which appeared in 1903, and to his French grammar ( Éléments de la grammaire française , Paris 1780), which was translated into English and Arabic and most recently Was published in 1881, but had since been overtaken by the grammar of Noël and Chapsal .

Lhomond refused to take the oath on the civil constitution of the clergy in 1792 and was temporarily interned, but then released again thanks to Jean Lambert Tallien , one of his former students. His birthplace Chaulnes and the neighboring city of Amiens erected statues for him. In Paris, a street in the 5th arrondissement bears his name.

Works

  • Doctrine chrétienne , Paris 1783
  • Epitome historiæ sacræ , Paris 1784 (édition établie et annotée par Gérard Bedel, Paris 2004)
  • Histoire abrégée de l'Église , Paris I787
  • Histoire abrégée de la Religion avant la venue de Jésus-Christ , Paris 1791

literature

  • André Chervel: … Et il fallut apprendre à écrire à tous les petits Français. Histoire de la grammaire scolaire. Paris 1977, ISBN 2-228-33940-7 .
  • Mohammed-F. Bechraoui: Une traduction arabe de la grammaire de Lhomond (1857). In: Historiographia Linguistica. 28, 2001, pp. 365-400.

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