Ferdinand Brunot

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Ferdinand Brunot (born November 6, 1860 in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges , † January 30, 1938 in Paris ) was a French linguist and Romanist .

life and work

Brunot graduated from high school in his hometown in 1876 and studied for two years in Dresden . From 1879 to 1882 he was a pupil of Charles Thurot at the École normal supérieure , acquired the Agrégation de grammaire, was a high school teacher in Bar-le-Duc for one year and in 1883, on the recommendation of Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, at the age of 23, he became Maître de conference of the University of Lyon . In 1891 he completed his habilitation with the two theses La doctrine de Malherbe d'après son Commentaire sur Desportes (Paris 1891, 1969) and De Philiberti Bugnonii vita et eroticis versibus thesim Facultati Litterarum Parisiensis proponebat (Lyon 1891) and became Maître de conférence at the Sorbonne , 1895 also at the Ecole normal supérieure.

From 1900 to 1934 Brunot held the first chair for the history of the French language at the Sorbonne and published from 1905 a monumental Histoire de la langue française , volumes 1-9 of which appeared during his lifetime and volumes 10 and 11 posthumously and which he published until led into the early 19th century. He created an important phonographic archive with speech recordings of various speakers and wrote La pensée et la langue (Paris 1922, 3rd edition 1936), one of the best grammars in French. He wrote a devastating criticism in book form of the grammar of the Académie française, published in 1932.

Brunot was dean of his faculty from 1919 to 1928 and mayor of the 14th arrondissement of Paris from 1910 to 1919. Politically, he confessed to the democratic left and was committed to the rehabilitation of Alfred Dreyfus .

From 1924 to 1928 he was the first president of the Société de Linguistique Romane , member of the Royal Academies of Belgium (1921) and Denmark, from 1925 of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (its president from 1933) and honorary doctorate from the Universities of Amsterdam, Brussels , Cambridge, Liège and Prague. In 1933 he became Grand Croix de la légion d'honneur . A square in Paris is named after him.

Other works

  • Grammaire historique de la langue française avec une introduction sur les origines et le développement de cette langue, Paris 1894
  • L'enseignement de la langue française. Ce qu'il est, ce qu'il devrait être dans l'enseignement primaire, Paris 1909
  • Observations sur la Grammaire de l'Académie française, Paris 1932
  • Précis de grammaire historique de la langue française (together with Charles Bruneau ), Paris 1933, 3rd edition 1969

literature

  • Mélanges de philologie offerts à Ferdinand Brunot, professeur d'histoire de la langue française à l'Université de Paris, à l'occasion de sa 20e année de professorat dans l'enseignement supérieur, par ses élèves français et étrangers, Paris 1904, Geneva 1972
  • Alexis Francois : Necrology for Ferdinand Brunot. In: Vox Romanica , Vol. 3, 1938, pp. 345-350. ( Digitized version )
  • Gérald Antoine : Ferdinand Brunot, l'homme et l'œuvre, in: Bulletin de la Société Philomatique Vosgienne 89, 1986, pp. 33-44
  • Albert Ronsin in: Les Vosgiens célèbres. Dictionnaire biographique illustré, Vagney 1990 sv
  • Jean-Claude Chevalier , F. Brunot (1860-1937). La fabrication d'une mémoire de la langue, in: Langages 114, 1994, pp. 54-68
  • Claude Choley, Un mandarin sous la troisième République: Ferdinand Brunot, professeur, militant, maître à penser, thèse, Université de Tours, 1995
  • Henri Besse: Ferdinand Brunot, méthodologue de l'enseignement de la grammaire du français, in: Histoire Épistémologie Langage 17, 1995, pp. 41-74
  • Jean-Claude Chevalier in: Lexicon grammaticorum, ed. by Harro Stammerjohann, Tübingen 1996, pp. 137-138
  • Jean-Claude Chevalier: L'Histoire de la langue française de Ferdinand Brunot, in: Les Lieux de mémoire, ed. by Pierre Nora, Paris 1997, pp. 3385-3419
  • Jean-Claude Chevalier, Ferdinand Brunot grammairien-citoyen 1860–1938, in: Ethik der Philologie, ed. by Ursula Bähler, Berlin 2006, pp. 123-134
  • Jochen Hafner, Ferdinand Brunot and the national philological tradition of linguistic historiography in France, Tübingen 2006

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. the review by Ernst Gamillscheg in "Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie" (ZRP) 68, 1952, pages 424–449

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personal data
SURNAME Brunot, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunot, Ferdinand Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French linguist and Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1938
Place of death Paris