Cornelis De Boer

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Cornelis De Boer (born May 26, 1880 in Leiden ; † August 7, 1957 ) was a Dutch Romanist , Medievalist and linguist.

Life

De Boer received his doctorate in 1909 at the Sorbonne with the thesis (Ed.) Philomena. Conte raconté d'après Ovide par Chrétien de Troyes (Paris 1909, Geneva 1974) and was a high school teacher in Amsterdam. In 1912 he gave an opening lecture at the University of Groningen entitled La Normandie et la renaissance classique dans la littérature française du XIIe siècle (Groningen 1912, Utrecht 1973). In 1917 he held an inaugural lecture at the University of Amsterdam with the title Autour d'un mot , and in 1920 as a professor at the University of Leiden with the title Considérations sur l'intérêt de la littérature française au Moyen âge . De Boer was dean of the literary faculty at Leiden University. He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences .

Works

Medieval Studies

  • (Eds.) Pyrame et Thisbé. Texts normand du XIIe siècle, Amsterdam 1911; Piramus et Tisbé. Poème du XIIe siècle, Paris 1921, 1965
  • (Ed.) Ovide moralisé. Poème du commencement du quatorzième siècle, Amsterdam 1915-1920-1938, Wiesbaden 1966-1968, Vaduz 2007
  • (Ed.) Ovide moralisé en prose. Texts du quinzième siècle, Amsterdam 1954

Linguistics

  • Essais de syntaxe française moderne, Groningen 1922, Paris 1923
  • Essai sur la syntaxe modern de la preposition en français et en Italien, Paris 1926
  • Introduction à l'étude de la syntaxe du français. Principes et applications, Groningen 1933, 1963 ( dedicated to Albert Sechehaye )
  • Syntaxe du français moderne, Leiden 1947, 1954 (on this Albert Henry in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 28, 1950, pp. 565–568)

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personal data
SURNAME Boer, Cornelis De
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Romanist, Medievalist and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffer
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 1957