Claude Albert Mayer

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Claude Albert Mayer (born November 16, 1918 in Mainz , † May 21, 1998 in Wisbech St Mary near Wisbech ) was a British Romanist of German origin.

life and work

Klaus Mayer went to the humanistic grammar school in Mainz, moved with his parents from National Socialist Germany to Paris to the Lycée Janson de Sailly (1933–1936), where he took the first name Claude-Albert, and fled to England (Lycée français in London, Abitur 1938). There he did military service in the British Army and received British citizenship in 1946. After the war he studied at the University of London and received his doctorate in 1949 with the thesis Satire in French Literature from 1525 to 1560 with particular reference to sources and technique . He then taught at the Universities of Hull, Southampton and Bedford College in London (1959-1965). From 1965 to 1978 he was the successor to Frank Thomas Herbert Fletcher in the James Barrow Chair of French at the University of Liverpool (successor: Peter Thomas Ricketts). In 1970 he became chairman of the Society for French Studies. His research was dominated by Clément Marot and the French Renaissance throughout his life .

CA Mayer was an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpellier .

Works

  • Bibliography of the oeuvres de Clément Marot. I, manuscripts. II, Editions, 2 vol., Geneva 1954
  • (Ed.) Clément Marot, Œuvres complètes, 1. Les epîtres (1958) 2. Oeuvres satiriques (1962) 3. Oeuvres lyriques (1964) 4. Oeuvres diverses (1966) 5. Epigrammes (1970) 6 Les traductions (1980) , 6 vols., London 1958-1970-Geneva 1980, Geneva / Paris 1999
  • La religion de Marot, Geneva 1960, Paris 1973
  • Clément Marot, Paris, Seghers, 1964, 1969 (Ecrivains d'hier et d'aujourd'hui 16)
  • Clément Marot, Paris, Nizet, 1972
  • Bibliography des éditions de Clément Marot publiées au XVIe siècle, Paris 1975
  • (Ed.) Clément Marot, L'enfer; Les coq-à-l'âne; Les élégies, Paris 1977
  • Lucien de Samosate et la Renaissance française, Geneva 1984
  • (with Dana Bentley-Cranch) Florimond Robertet (? -1527), homme d'État français, Paris 1994

literature

  • Literature and the arts in the reign of Francis I: Essays presented to CA Mayer, edited by Pauline M. Smith and ID McFarlane, Lexington (Kentucky) 1985
  • CA Mayer, Clément Marot et autres études sur la littérature française de la Renaissance. Etudes réunies et éditées par Trevor Peach et Pauline M. Smith en l'honneur du 75e anniversaire de CA Mayer, Paris 1993
  • Renaissance reflections. Essays in memory of CA Mayer, ed. By Pauline M. Smith and Trevor Peach, Paris 2002
  • Henri Weber in: Bulletin de l'Association d'étude sur l'humanisme, la réforme et la renaissance 47, 1998, pp. 99-100
  • The Independent June 1, 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Claude Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer, CA; Mayer, Klaus; Mayer, Claude-Albert; Mayer, C.-A .; Mayer, Claude A .; Mayer, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romanist of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1998
Place of death Wisbech St Mary at Wisbech