Ernest Bovet
Ernest Bovet (born May 24, 1870 in Lausanne ; † August 25, 1941 there ) was a Swiss Romance scholar and intellectual .
life and work
Bovet studied Romance studies in Zurich and received his doctorate in 1895 under Heinrich Morf on the sonnets of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli . He taught French literature in Rome and worked for the magazines Semaine littéraire and Bibliothèque universelle . From 1901 to 1922, he succeeded Heinrich Morf as a full professor of French and Italian literary history in Zurich . From 1907 to 1923 he founded and directed the Zurich magazine Wissen und Leben . From 1912 to 1918 he was President of the Swiss Homeland Security and from 1922 to 1939 General Secretary of the Swiss Association for the League of Nations.
Other works
- Le peuple de Rome vers 1840 d'après les sonnets en dialecte transtévérin de Giuseppe-Gioachino Belli , Neuchâtel / Rome 1898.
- La préface de Chapelain à l'Adonis du Chevalier Marino, in: From Romance languages and literatures. Ceremony for Heinrich Morf , Halle as 1905.
- Lyrisme - Épopée - Drame: Une loi de l'histoire littéraire expliquée par l'évolution générale , Paris 1911.
- Le christianisme, créateur de valeurs sociales , Lausanne 1929.
literature
- Ernest Bovet, his personality, his work: Festschrift for his 70th birthday / ed. by the Swiss Association for the League of Nations = Ernest Bovet, l'homme, son oeuvre: hommage publié à l'occasion de son 70e anniversaire par l'Association suisse pour la Société des Nations, Bern 1940.
- Geoges Büttiker: Ernest Bovet, 1870–1941 , Basel / Stuttgart 1971.
- Alain Clavien: Les Helvétistes. Intellectuels et politiques en Suisse Romande au début du siècle , Lausanne 1993.
- Landry Charrier: "Ernest Bovet, la Société des Nations et l'idée d'Europe unie (1914-1923)", Traverse. Journal of history. Revue d'histoire 2 (2010), p. 108-118.
swell
Ernest Bovet in the catalog of the Archives cantonales vaudoises .
Web links
- Martin Rizek: Bovet, Ernest. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Publications by and about Ernest Bovet in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bovet, Ernest |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Romance Studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lausanne |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1941 |
| Place of death | Lausanne |