Eugène Rolland

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Eugène Rolland (born March 21, 1846 in Metz , † July 24, 1909 in Paris ) was a French ethnologist , philologist, Romance philologist , dialectologist and lexicographer.

life and work

Rolland dedicated his life to linguistic folklore . He collected patois , folk songs , riddles , counting rhymes and above all animal and plant names.

Together with his friend Henri Gaidoz he founded the magazine Mélusine. Recueil de mythologie, littérature populaire, traditions et usages (Paris 1878–1912), which (in the first issue) referred to a program designed by Gaston Paris .

Rolland's dictionaries on the French vernacular names of fauna and flora are among the “great individual achievements that take up a whole scholar's life” (Voetz 1990, p. 1256).

Works

  • Vocabulaire du patois du pays messin tel qu'il est actuellement parlé à Rémilly, in: Romania 2, 1873, pp. 437–454; 5, 1876, pp. 189-229
  • Devinettes ou énigmes populaires de la France , Paris 1877 (preface by Gaston Paris )
  • Faune populaire de la France - noms vulgaires, dictons, proverbes, contes et superstitions , 12 vols., Paris 1877–1915 (partly edited by Henri Gaidoz)
  • Flore populaire ou histoire naturelle des plantes dans leurs rapports avec la linguistique et le folklore , 11 vols., Paris 1896–1914 (vols. 8–11, edited by Henri Gaidoz), 6 vols., Paris 1967
  • Rimes et jeux de l'enfance , Paris 1883, 2002
  • Recueil de chansons populaires , 6 vols., Paris 1883–1887, 3 vols., Paris 1967

literature

  • Henri Gaidoz, Eugène Rolland et son oeuvre littéraire, in: Mélusine 11, 1912
  • Lothar Voetz , 133. Dictionaries of animal and plant names , in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1990, pp. 1254-1258

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personal data
SURNAME Rolland, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ethnologist, philologist, Romance philologist, dialectologist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1909
Place of death Paris