Edmond Edmont
Edmond Edmont (born January 8, 1849 in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise , † January 22, 1926 ibid) was a French lay Romanist and lay dialectologist .
Life
Edmont was a retail merchant in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise and was interested in the lexical peculiarities of his hometown. The letters A and B of a first version of his Lexique saint-polois earned him a prize from the regional academy in 1883. This made Jules Gilliéron aware of him, met him, helped him to be published in the magazine Revue des patois galloromans (and praise from Gaston Paris and Walther von Wartburg ) and trained him as a dialectological explorer. Edmont gave up his bourgeois existence in order to carry out surveys for Gilliérons company of a French language atlas from 1897 to 1901 in 639 French municipalities (a second time in 1911 in Corsica). Gilliéron was so satisfied with the results of the colleague, who was obviously also phonetically gifted, that he always recognized him as an equal co-author of the language atlas.
The town of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise named a street after Edmond Edmont and put a plaque on the house where he died.
Works
- Lexique saint-polois. Saint-Pol 1897, Geneva 1980
- with Jules Gilliéron : Atlas linguistique de la France , 10 volumes, Paris 1902–1914; Supplementary volume 1920
- Epigraphie du département du Pas-de-Calais. Tome VI. Fascicule II: Canton de Saint-Pol. Arras 1914
literature
- Sever Pop : La dialectologie. Löwen 1950, pp. 75-81.
- Alain Lerond : Réflexions sur la geographie linguistique. In: Annales de Bretagne 71, 1964, pp. 553-568 (critical of Edmont's exploration expertise).
Web links
- Literature by and about Edmond Edmont in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Edmond Edmont in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Biography, French, with picture
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Edmont, Edmond |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romance studies and dialectologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1849 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise |
DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1926 |
Place of death | Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise |