Eugène Vinaver

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Eugène Vinaver (born June 18, 1899 in Saint Petersburg , † July 21, 1979 ), son of the Russian lawyer and politician Maxim Winawer , was a French Romance and Medievalist who taught in England.

life and work

Vinaver was a student of Joseph Bédier at the École pratique des Hautes études in Paris . He completed his habilitation with the two theses Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut dans l'œuvre de Thomas Malory and Études sur le "Tristan" en prose. Les sources, les manuscrits, bibliographie critique (both Paris 1925) and went to Oxford, where he became a lecturer and 1931 reader. From 1933 to 1966, Vinaver was Professor of French Language and Literature in Manchester . After his retirement he taught in Canada and the USA, as well as at the University of Hull and the University of Kent in Canterbury.

Vinaver founded an Arthurian Society in Oxford in 1928 and the International Arthurian Society in 1948 together with Jean Frappier and Roger Sherman Loomis (1887–1966). From 1961 he was a foreign member of the Royal Belgian Academy and from 1972 a corresponding member of the British Academy . Vinaver was a five-time honorary doctor.

Other works

  • Malory, Oxford 1929, reprint 1992
  • Homage à Bédier, Manchester 1942
  • Racine. Principes de la tragédie en marge de la poétique d'Aristote, texte établi et commenté, Manchester 1944, Manchester / Paris 1978
  • (Ed.) The Works of Sir Thomas Malory , 3 vols., Oxford 1947, 2nd edition 1967, 3rd edition 1990
  • Racine et la poésie tragique. Essai, Paris 1951, 2nd edition 1963
  • (Ed.) The Tale of the death of King Arthur, by Sir Thomas Malory, Oxford 1955
  • Form and Meaning in Medieval Romance, 1966
  • A la recherche d'une poétique médiévale, Paris 1970
  • The Rise of Romance, Oxford 1971
  • Entretiens sur Racine, Paris 1984

literature

  • Medieval miscellany presented to Eugene Vinaver by pupils, colleagues and friends, ed. by F. Whitehead, Armel Hugh Diverres and FE Sutcliffe, Manchester / New York 1965 (with picture and list of publications, review by Hans Helmut Christmann in: Zeitschrift für Französ Sprache und Literatur 77, 1967, pp. 190–191)
  • Modern miscellany presented to Eugène Vinaver by pupils, colleagues and friends, ed. by TE Lawrenson, FE Sutcliffe and GFA Gadoffre, Manchester / New York 1969 (with list of publications)
  • Armel Hugh Diverres in: French Studies 33, 1979, pp. 511-512

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows: Eugène Vinaver. British Academy, accessed August 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Vinaver, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1979