Charles Camproux

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Charles Camproux (* 1908 in Marseille , † 1994 in Clapiers , Département Hérault ) was a French Romanist , Occitanist and Occitan poet.

life and work

Camproux grew up in Marseille and in the Don Bosco house in Montpellier . He studied and became a high school teacher in Mende (1929) and Narbonne . He was involved in the Occitan movement, co-founded the Societat d'Estudis Occitans (SDE, until 1946) in 1930 and founded the magazine Occitania in 1934 . He supported the efforts of Louis Alibert (1884-1959) to reform Occitan. In 1937 he made the Agrégation and taught in Béziers and Montpellier. As a soldier, he was captured by Germany in 1940, spent several months in a Stalag , fled and returned to Montpellier, where he taught Occitan language and literature at the university from 1942 and worked in the Resistance at the same time. After the liberation he published the weekly Le Tigre , in which important authors published.

Camproux habilitated in 1954 in Paris by Albert Dauzat with the two Thèses Essai de géographie linguistique du Gevaudan (2 vols., Paris 1962-1963) and Étude syntaxique of parlers gévaudanais (Paris 1958) and was from 1957 to 1976 at the University of Montpellier ordinary Professor of Grammaire et philologie française. From his chair he was committed to the recognition of Occitan as a teaching and research subject at the university. With Robert Lafont he founded the Center d'études occitanes in Montpellier in 1966. He was editor of the magazine Revue des langues romanes . Jean-Pierre Chambon is one of his students.

Camproux was also a poet and literary critic on French and Occitan. From 1946 to 1974 he worked in the press and radio for Occitan and from 1956 to 1968 as a critic in Les Lettres françaises .

In Montpellier and Clapiers (F-34830) streets were named after him.

Other works

Romance Studies and Occitan Studies

  • Petite grammaire du dialecte lozérien. Version française (with Chontoclar [Albert Brunel 1889-1979]), Marseille 1931
  • Per lo camp occitan, Narbonne 1935
  • Le livre d'oc à l'usage des élèves du cours supérieur des classes primaires, Montpellier 1947
  • Histoire de la littérature occitane, Paris 1953, 1971
  • Joy d'amor. Jeu et joie d'amour / Le joy d'amour des troubadours, Montpellier 1965
  • (Ed.) Pèire Cardenal, Tròces causits, Montpellier 1970
  • (Ed.) La cançon de la crosada, Montpellier 1972
  • Les langues romanes, Paris 1974, 1979 (Que sais-je? 1562)
  • Ecrits sur les troubadours et la civilization occitane du Moyen-Age, 2 vols., Toulouse 1984-1985

Occitan poetry

  • Poemas sens poësia, Toulouse 1942
  • Bestiari, Toulouse 1947
  • 12 poëmas de resistència, Castelnau del Lez 1984
  • Obra poëtica occitana, Toulouse 1984
  • Solèu roge, Enèrgas 1985

literature

  • Mélanges de philologie romane offerts à Charles Camproux, 2 vol., Montpellier 1978
  • Jean-Marie Petit, Hommage à Charles Camproux / Omenatge a Carles Campros, Béziers 1983 (author is Camproux's son-in-law)
  • Robert Lafont in: Revue de linguistique romane 58, n ° 231-232, 1994, pp. 600–605
  • Paul Fabre in: Nouvelle Revue d'Onomastique 25-26, 1995, pp. 305-306
  • Charles Camproux. De la philologie à l'histoire, in: Lengas 53, 2003
  • Robert Lafont / Christian Anatole, Nouvelle histoire de la littérature occitane, tome II, Paris 1970

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personal data
SURNAME Camproux, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campros, Carles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist and Occitanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH 1994
Place of death Clapiers , Hérault department