Charles Joret
Charles Joret (born October 14, 1839 in Formigny , † December 27, 1914 in Paris ) was a philologist and literary historian .
Charles Joret, later professor of foreign literatures at the Faculté des Lettres in Aix-en-Provence , began his studies at the Sorbonne and continued them in Heidelberg and Bonn , specializing in German literature and linguistics.
Joret was a member of the Sociéte linguistique of Paris, in whose memoirs he published a treatise on the Norman dialect of the Bessin landscape and an etymological dictionary of the same (1877–1879).
The Joret line , which is as important in northern France as the Benrath line in Germany, is named after him .
Publications
- Herder et la renaissance littéraire en Allemagne au XVIII. siècle (1875)
- La littérature allemande au XVIIIth siècle dans ses rapports avec la littérature française et avec la littérature anglaise (1876)
- La rose dans L'antiquité et au moyen age: histoire, legends et symbolisme (1892)
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SURNAME | Joret, Charles |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French philologist and literary historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1839 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Formigny |
DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1914 |
Place of death | Paris |