Charles de Pougens

Charles de Pougens (born August 15, 1755 in Paris , † December 19, 1833 in Vauxbuin, Département Aisne ) was a French author, Romanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Pougens, possibly the natural son of Louis François I de Bourbon, prince de Conti , contracted an illness during a stay in Rome (as an embassy attaché to the ambassador François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis ) which, due to unfortunate treatment, led to his complete blindness in 1781 . Nevertheless, he was active throughout his life with the help of colleagues (such as Théodore Lorin, 1775–1857) linguistically and aesthetically. Ruined by the French Revolution (which he welcomed), he worked successfully as a bookseller and publisher (with a printer) from 1794, including in the service of Napoleon Bonaparte and in contact with the Weimar court . In 1805 he married Frances Julia Sayer (1757-1850, niece of Edward Boscawen ), whom he met in London , and retired with her to the country in 1808 for the rest of his life (Vauxbuin Castle near Soissons ), where he pursued his literary and scientific inclinations. He was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (since 1798) and a corresponding member of numerous European academies (including Göttingen, Munich, Florence, Bologna and Petersburg). From 1800 to 1805 he was editor of the organ Bibliothèque française. Ouvrage périodique (68 vols., Paris, Honnert). From 1774 Pougens worked on the project of a large historical dictionary of French ( Dictionnaire étymologique et complet de la langue française ) and collected 500,000 citations, of which he was only able to use a small part for his published partial dictionaries, which were later published by Émile Littré were consulted with profit.

Works

lexicography

• Vocabulaire de nouveaux privatifs français imités des langues latine, italienne, espagnole, portugaise, allemande et anglaise, suivi de la table bibliographique des auteurs cités, Paris, l'Imprimerie du Cercle social, 1794 (12 + 167 + 106 pages).
• Trésor des origines et Dictionnaire grammatical raisonné de la langue française. Spécimen , Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1819 (Trésor des origines de la langue française, pp. 1–334; Dictionnaire grammatical, pp. 335–435).
• Archeology française, ou Vocabulaire de mots anciens tombés en désuétude, et propres à être restitués au langage moderne , 2 vols., Paris, Desoer, 1821–1825.

Other works

• (Translator) Georg Forster , Voyage philosophique et pittoresque sur les rives du Rhin, fait en 1790 , Paris, Buisson, 1794.
• (Translator) Georg Forster, Voyage philosophique et pittoresque en Angleterre et en France fait en 1790 , Paris, Buisson, 1795 (in the foreword the plan sketch for the Dictionnaire étymologique et complet de la langue française ).
• Essai sur les antiquités du Nord, et les anciennes langues septentrionales , Paris, Pougens, 1797; 2nd edition, 1799 (preface, pp. V – XVI, with a detailed plan of the Dictionnaire étymologique et complet ).
• Les Quatre âges , Paris, Renouard, 1819; Spanish, Paris, 1826.
  • The four ages of life , translated by Friedrich Gleich , Leipzig, Reclam, 1820.
• Abel, ou les Trois frères , Paris, Mongie, 1820.
  • The three brothers, or story of three abandoned people, in France, England and the Netherlands , translated by Friedrich Gleich, Merseburg, Sunday, 1824.
• Jocko, anecdote détachée des Lettres inédites sur l'instinct des animaux , Paris, Persa, 1824.
• The power of love, little novels and stories by Carl Pougens , translated by Ludwig Norden, Merseburg, Sunday, 1825.
• Contes en vers et poésies , Paris, Didot, 1828.

literature

• Agricol-Joseph Fortia d'Urban , Discours sur Monsieur le chevalier de Pougens, de l'Académie des inscription et belles-lettres, et de plusieurs autres sociétés, prononcé dans une société de morale , le 7 janvier 1834, Fournier 1834.
• Mémoires et souvenirs de Charles Pougens , Paris, Fournier, 1834 (456 pages).
• Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de M. de Pougens, in: Mémoires de l'Institut Royal de France 12, 1839, pp. 488-506 (with list of publications).
• Paul von Bojanowski , Duke Carl August and the Parisian bookseller Pougens. A contribution to the history of international relations in Weimar , Weimar, Böhlau, 1903 (it concerns a correspondence from 1802).
• Arnulf Stefenelli, The lexicological source value and the verbal historical relevance of Charles Pougens' Archeologie française, ou vocabulaire de mots anciens tombés en désuétude, et propres à être restitués au langage moderne (1821/1825), in: Journal for French Language and Literature 93, 1983, pp. 151-169.

Web links

• Literature by and about Charles de Pougens in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Information on Charles de Pougens in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .