Ernest Negre

Ernest Nègre (born October 11, 1907 in Saint-Julien-Gaulène , Département Tarn , † April 15, 2000 in Toulouse ) was a French canon, Romanist , Occitanist and place name researcher.

life and work

Nègre graduated as licencié ès lettres in 1927 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1933. Then he went through a career as a high school teacher at various Catholic schools. In 1958 he completed his habilitation in Toulouse with the Thèses Toponymie du canton de Rabastens, Tarn (Paris 1959, Toulouse 1981) and Les Noms de lieux du Tarn (Paris 1959, 1972, 1986) and became Professor of Philology and Occitan Literature at the Catholic Institute of Toulouse . From 1972 to 1977 he was the successor to Joseph Salvat, director of the local Collège d'Occitanie.

Nègre received the Prix Albert Dauzat of the Société Française d'Onomastique in 1981.

Other works

• Les Noms de lieux en France, Paris 1963, 1977
• (Ed.) Auger Gaillard, Œuvres complètes, Paris 1970, Toulouse 1981
• (Eds.) Gustave Farenc, Flore occitane du Tarn, Agen 1973
• (Ed.) Mathieu Blouin, Les Troubles à Gaillac, Toulouse 1976
• (Associate) Xavier Ravier, Atlas linguistique et ethnographique du Languedoc occidental, Paris 1978–1993
• (Editor) Joseph Salvat, Gramatica occitana dels parlars lengadocians, 4th edition, Toulouse 1978, 5th edition 1998
• Toponymy générale de la France . Etymology de 35000 noms de lieux (I. Formations préceltiques, celtiques, romanes, II. Formations non-romanes, III. Formations dialectales (suite) et françaises, IV. Errata et addenda aux trois volumes), 4 vols., Geneva 1990– 1998
• Contes de Gaulena, Toulouse 1992

literature

• Ernest Nègre, Études de linguistique romane et toponymie, Toulouse 1984 (with list of publications)
• Jean Thomas: Nécrologie et bibliographie d'Ernest Nègre, in: Revue de Linguistique romane 66, 2002, pp. 623–628

Web links

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