Ernest Mérimée

Ernest Mérimée (born March 27, 1846 in Lyon , † January 14, 1924 in Madrid ) was a French Romance studies , Hispanic and literary scholar.

life and work

Mérimée, whose father was a military doctor, attended schools in Paris, Metz, Toulouse, La Rochelle, Ile d'Oléron, Dunkerque and Sidi-Bel-Abbès and graduated from high school in Algiers. From 1865 he was a student of the Lycée Louis-le-Grand , in 1871 he passed the Agrégation and became a high school teacher in Pau . From there he traveled extensively in Spain. He became a high school teacher in Toulouse, completed his habilitation in Paris with the two Thèses Essai sur la vie et les oeuvres de Francisco de Quevedo 1580-1645 (Paris 1886), as well as De Antiquis aquarum religionibus in Gallia meridionali ac praesertim in Pyrenaeis montibus (Paris 1886) and was appointed to the first Spanish chair at the University of Toulouse in 1886 . From 1910 until his death he was director of the newly founded "Institut français en Espagne" in Madrid, from 1920 he was seconded by his son Henri Mérimée , who succeeded him in 1924. A street
in Toulouse is named after him.

Other works

• (Ed.) Première partie des Mocedades del Cid de Don Guillén de Castro, Toulouse 1890, New York / London 1971
• Précis d'histoire de la littérature espagnole, Paris 1908 (525 pages), 1922 (670 pages); English: A history of Spanish literature, New York 1930
• (Ed.) Le poème du Cid. Extraits, Paris 1915
• (Ed.) Le romancero espagnol, Paris 1918

literature

• Obituaries in: Bulletin Hispanique 26, 1924, pp. 95, 265-272

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernest Mérimée in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)