Charles Bruneau

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Charles Bruneau (born November 19, 1883 in Givet , † August 3, 1969 in Paris) was a French Romance scholar and dialectologist.

life and work

Bruneau was a high school teacher in Evreux (1906) and Reims (1910) and completed his habilitation in Paris in 1913 as a student of Jules Gilliéron and Ferdinand Brunot with the two theses Étude phonétique des patois d'Ardenne (Paris 1913) and La limite des dialectes wallon, champenois et lorrain en Ardenne (Paris 1913). After the World War he went to the University of Nancy , where in 1923 he became a full professor of the Lorraine dialects. 1929–1930 he was visiting professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, United States. In 1934 he succeeded his teacher Ferdinand Brunot on the chair for French language history at the Sorbonne. After Brunot's death he took over his monumental Histoire de la langue française and added volumes 12 and 13 (19th century). During the German occupation he was arrested as a member of the Resistance and was taken to the notorious prison in Fresnes (Département Val-de-Marne). After the war, he became rector of Bordeaux University and taught at Yale University in 1950 .

At the invitation of his student Jean Babin (1905–1978), Bruneau held the opening lecture of the Institut d'études françaises at the University of Saarbrücken in 1948.

Bruneau was an honorary doctor of the Universities of Durham and Leuven and an associate member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences . In Charleville-Mézières, the “Institut Charles Bruneau” named after him was founded to research the Ardennes dialects.

Bruneau was married to the daughter of the literary historian Edmond Estève. He was the maternal grandfather of the writer Pascal Quignard (* 1948).

Other works

  • Enquête linguistique sur les patois d'Ardenne, 2 vols., Paris 1913/1926, Geneva 1977
  • (Ed.) Charles d'Orléans et la poésie aristocratique, Lyon 1924, Geneva 1973
  • Manuel de phonétique (pratique), Paris 1927, 1931
  • (Ed.) La chronique de Philippe de Vigneulles, 4 vols., Metz 1927–1933
  • Précis de grammaire historique de la langue française (with Ferdinand Brunot ), Paris 1933, 1937, 1949
  • Grammaire française et exercices (with Marcel Heulluy), Paris 1935
  • Questions de grammaire française et de stylistique, Paris 1936
  • Grammaire pratique de la langue française à l'usage des honnêtes gens (with Marcel Heulluy), Paris 1938
  • Histoire de la langue française des origines à 1900. 12. L'Epoque romantique, Paris 1948; 13. L'époque réaliste, 2 vol., Paris 1953–1972
  • Petite histoire de la langue française, 2 vol., Paris 1955–1958, 5th ed., Ed. by Monique Parent and Gérard Moignet , Paris 1969–1970
  • (Ed. With Peter M. Schon ) Studia Romanica. Homage à la mémoire de Eugen Lerch . Commemorative letter for Eugen Lerch, Stuttgart 1955

literature

  • Mélanges de linguistique française offerts à M. Charles Bruneau, professeur à la Sorbonne, Geneva 1954 (with list of publications)
  • Monique Parent in: Revue de linguistique romane 33, 1969, pp. 463-464

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. on this, the review by Ernst Gamillscheg in “Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie” (ZRP) 68, 1952, pages 424–449

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personal data
SURNAME Bruneau, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies and dialectologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Givet
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1969
Place of death Paris