François-Antoine Pomey

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François-Antoine Pomey (born December 8, 1618 in Pernes-les-Fontaines , † November 10, 1673 in Lyon ) was a French Jesuit, classical philologist, Romanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Pomey (also: Pomay or Pomai ) entered the Jesuit order in 1636 and was prefect at the Collège de la Trinité (today: Collège-lycée Ampère ) in Lyon in 1644 . He published numerous successful school publications, mostly in Latin, some of which were translated into French, English and German.

His French-Latin dictionary (1664, 1671) was important, which made the lack of monolingual French dictionaries before 1680 particularly relevant, not least as a basis for the creation of bilingual or trilingual dictionaries with French (e.g. French -English by Guy Miège ). A specialty of his Dictionnaire Royal were the many articles with subject group information (e.g. all body parts sv corps ).

Works

Dictionaries

  • Le Dictionnaire Royal des langues françoise et latine , Lyon 1664
    • Le Dictionnaire royal augmenté , Lyon 1671 (until 1716)
    • Le petit dictionnaire royal pour ceux qui commencent à composer en latin , Lyon 1667 (until 1723)
    • Le Grand Dictionnaire Royal (German-French-Latin), Frankfurt am Main 1681 (until 1740)

Other works

  • Pantheum mythicum . Seu fabulosa deorum historia, Lyon 1659
  • Method Pour Apprendre L'Histoire Des Faux Dieux De L'Antiquite Ou Le Pantheon Mytyque Composé en latin par le Pere Pomey, & traduit en franc̜ois par Monsieur Tenend, Paris 1715
  • Libitina, seu de funeribus epitomes eruditionis , 2 vol., Lyon 1659
  • Candidatus Rhetoricae, seu Aphtonii progymnasmata , Lyon 1661 (numerous editions)
  • L'Art de bien méditer ou la manière de prier mentalement , expliquée par diverse pratiques, Lyon 1662
  • Catéchisme théologique , Lyon 1664
  • Pomariolum floridioris latinitatis seu phrases synonymae A. Manutii, Lyon 1664 (numerous editions)
    • Flos latinitatis ex auctorum latinae linguae principium monumentis excerptus in hunc digestus libellum, cui prima editio nuper inscripserat pro titulo "Pomariolum latinitatis", Lyon / Antwerp 1666.
  • Les Particules françoises , méthodiquement sont exprimées en latin, avec un recueil de celles qui ne souffrent point de méthode, Lyon 1666
  • Indiculus universalis . L'Univers en abrégé, Lyon 1667 (numerous editions)

literature

  • Carlos Sommervogel , Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. Nouvelle édition, Vol. 6, Brussels / Paris 1895, Col. 971–990
  • Laurent Bray, César-Pierre Richelet (1626–1698) , Tübingen 1986, p. 25
  • Chantal Girardin, Une doctrine jésuite de l'exemple. Le Dictionnaire Royal Augmenté de François-Antoine Pomey, in: Langue française 106, 1995, pp. 21-34
  • Aline Francœur, Fighting Cotgrave with Father Pomey: Guy Miège's Recourse to the Dictionaire Royal Augmenté (1671) in the Preparation of his New Dictionary French and English (1677), in: International Journal of Lexicography 23, 2010, pp. 137-155

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personal data
SURNAME Pomey, François-Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pomey, François; Pomai, François; Pomay, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Jesuit, classical philologist, Romanist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH Pernes-les-Fontaines
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1673
Place of death Lyon