Charles Grandgagnage
Charles Grandgagnage (* 1812 in Liège ; † 1878 ibid) was a Belgian Romanist and Wallonist .
life and work
Charles Grandgagnage, nephew of the writer Joseph Grandgagnage (1797–1877), is considered to be the inventor of the term Wallonia in today's sense and, with his Etymological Dictionary of Walloon (1845) influenced by Friedrich Diez , as the forefather of Wallonistics . He was a member of parliament and senator in Liège and co-founder in 1856 and first president of the Société Liégeoise de Littérature Wallonne (today: Société de langue et de littérature wallonnes ) until 1876 .
In 1929, Jean Haust dedicated his Dictionnaire liégeois to the memory of Grandgagnage.
Works
- Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue wallonne (completed by August Scheler ), Liège / Brussels 1845-1850-1880, Geneva 1969, Brussels 1980 (358 + 646 pages)
- Mémoire sur les anciens noms de lieux dans la Belgique orientale, Brussels 1855
- Vocabulaire des anciens noms de lieux de la Belgique orientale, Liège 1859
- Coutumes de Namur et coutume de Philippeville, 2 vols., Brussels 1869–1870
literature
- Études de dialectologie romane, dédiées à la mémoire de Charles Grandgagnage, Paris / Lüttich 1932, Geneva 1980
- Jean Haust in: Revue Wallonne 3, 1908, pp. 157–164
- Jules Feller in: Bulletin du Dictionnaire wallon 17, 1932, pp. 143-163
- Marie-Guy Boutier in: Wallonnes. Chronique de la Société de Langue et de Littérature Wallonnes 4/1995
- Emil Fechner, History of Wallon Studies, Düsseldorf 1993
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grandgagnage, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian Walloonist and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liege |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1878 |
| Place of death | Liege |