Ernest Tonnelat
Ernest Tonnelat (born May 8, 1877 in Courcy-aux-Loges , Loiret department , † June 16, 1948 ) was a French German studies scholar and literary historian .
Life
Tonnelat came from a family of teachers. In 1898 he was accepted into the École normal supérieure . From 1905 he worked as a teacher, first in Caen , then from 1909 at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris. In 1912 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Brothers Grimm . In 1913 he received a professorship for German language and literature in Geneva . When the First World War broke out , he was called up and, for health reasons, switched to a propaganda unit as early as 1915, where he and Hansi wrote anti-German propaganda pamphlets. In 1933 he succeeded his teacher Charles Andler as professor at the Collège de France in Paris . After the French defeat at the beginning of World War II , Tonnelat moved to the unoccupied zone in Lyon and did not return to Paris until 1945, where he died in 1948.
Tonnelat researched especially the Nibelungenlied and the Brothers Grimm and their fairy tales. His contribution to the Germanic religion was published in the Mana series of books on the history of religion.
Works
- Les frères Grimm. Leur oeuvre de jeunesse . Colin, Paris 1912
- Les contes des frères Grimm. Etude sur la composition et le style du recueil of the "children's and house fairy tales" . Colin, Paris 1912
- with Hansi (d. i. Jean Jacques Waltz) : A travers les Lignes ennemies. Trois années d'offensive contre le moral allemand (in the series: Collection de mémoires, études et documents pour servir à l'histoire de la Guerre mondiale ). Payot, Paris 1922
- Histoire de la Litterature Allemande "des Origines au XVII Siecle" . Paris, Payot 1923
- Histoire de la Langue Allemande . Colin Paris 1927
- La chanson of the Nibelung. Étude sur la composition et la formation du poème épique . Ed. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1926
- Charles Andler : sa vie et son oeuvre . Les Belles Lettres, Paris 1937
- Albert Grenier, Joseph Vendryes, Ernest Tonnelat, B.-O. Unobserved: Les Religions Etrusque et Romaine. Les Religions des Celtes, des Germains et des anciens Slaves . Presses Universitaires, Paris 1948 (Mana. Introduction à l'histoire des religions: Les religions de l'Europe ancienne)
- La legend des Nibelungen en Allemagne au XIXe siècle . Paris 1952
- Jacques Droz (ed.): Les Révolutions allemandes de 1848. D'apres un ms. et des notes de E. Tonnelat . Paris: University of Applied Sciences. de France, 1957 (Publications de la Fac. des lettres de l'Univ. de Clermont)
- Parzival . Editions Aubier Montaigne, Paris 1977 (translation)
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernest Tonnelat in the catalog of the German National Library
- Edmond Vermeil : Ernest Tonnelat (1877-1948) . Obituary (French) from 1949 in Politique étrangère 14 (1949) N ° 1, pp. 100–102 (last checked on March 3, 2011)
References and comments
- ^ Hansi and E. Tonnelat: A travers les Lignes ennemies. Trois années d'offensive contre le moral allemand (in the series: Collection de mémoires, études et documents pour servir à l'histoire de la Guerre mondiale) . Payot, Paris 1922; also Denis Rolland, Didier Georgakakis, Yves Déloye: Les républiques en propagande. Pluralisme politique et propagande: entre déni et institutionnalisation XIX e -XXI e siècles . Éditions L'Harmattan, Paris 2006, p. 220 (French). ISBN 978-2-296-01781-8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tonnelat, Ernest |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Germanist and literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Courcy-aux-Loges , Loiret department |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1948 |