François-Séraphin Regnier-Desmarais

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François-Séraphin Regnier-Desmarais (born August 13, 1632 in Paris ; † September 6, 1713 ibid) was a French diplomat, poet, philologist, Romance scholar , grammarian and translator.

life and work

Regnier-Desmarais came from a noble family. His maternal grandfather was a comissaire des guerres . Regnier-Desmarais (actually Desmarets) attended the Augustinian seminary in Nanterre from 1640 to 1647 . Then he studied for two years at the Collège de Montaigu in Paris. From the early 1650s he lived with his father at the (often traveling) court. He was with Charles III until his death in 1687 . de Blanchefort, duc de Créquy , with whom he was in Rome from 1662 to 1665 and in Munich in 1680 ("Munik").

Regnier-Desmarais was extremely gifted with languages. In the course of his life he published in French, Italian, Spanish and Latin and translated from these languages ​​as well as from Greek. He had originally learned Italian and Spanish himself from books, then refined it through correspondence and dealing with native speakers. In 1667 the Accademia della Crusca elected him a member at the suggestion of the Grand Duke Leopold, later Emperor Leopold II , and the Académie française also appointed him to their midst in 1670, although he had not yet published anything. From 1683 until his death he was (as the successor to François Eudes de Mézeray ) their Secrétaire perpétuel and as such in 1694 the official editor of the first academy dictionary as well as the driving force behind the creation of the completely reorganized second edition of 1718, whose publication he no longer lived to see.

In 1705 he published ud T. Traité de la grammaire françoise (746 pages, also: Geneva 1973), a normative grammar that emerged from the tradition of rationalistic language observation of the 17th century ( Vaugelas , Bouhours ). It filled the gap in the grammar aimed at by the academy but never created, but did not receive the official status of an academy grammar.

Other works

Own works

  • Histoire des démeslez de la Cour de France avec la Cour de Rome, au sujet de l'affaire des Corses , Paris 1707 (refers to his stay in Rome)
  • Poësies françoises , Paris 1707 (532 pages), 2 vols., 1721 (with biographical and autobiographical [1712] foreword), 1753
  • Poetry toscane del signor abate Regnier Desmarais. Poesias castelanas del mismo. Carmina latina ejusdem , Paris 1708 (526 pages)

Translations

  • Orazione delle lodi del re cristianissimo Luigi XIV , detta nell 'Accademia Franzese [by P. Pellisson-Fontanier], Paris 1671
  • La Pratique de la perfection chrétienne du RP Alphonse Rodríguez ( Alphons Rodriguez ), 3 vols., Paris 1675–1679, 4 vols., 1682, 1742, 1840, 1865, 1870, 1872, 1877, 1884, 1890
  • Le Poesie d'Anacreonte, tradotte in verso toscano , Paris 1693, Florence 1695
  • Le premier livre de l'Iliade en vers françois. Avec une dissertation sur quelques endroits d'Homére , Paris 1700
  • Les deux livres de la Divination de Cicéron , Paris 1710, 1794
  • Entretiens de Cicéron sur les vrais biens et sur les vrais maux , Paris 1721

literature

  • Pierre Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du 19e siècle , vol. 13, 1875 sv
  • Jean-Pierre Seguin, L'invention de la phrase au XVIIIe siècle , Paris 1993, pp. 61-78
  • Pierre Swiggers, 17a. History of grammars and linguistic teachings of Romance languages ​​in Romania, in: Lexikon der Romance Linguistik (LRL), ed. by Günter Holtus, Michael Metzeltin and Christian Schmitt, vol. 1.1. History of Romance Studies. Methodology (Das Sprachsystem), Tübingen 2001, pp. 476–505 (in French)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Entry in the membership catalog of the Crusca
personal data
SURNAME Regnier-Desmarais, François-Séraphin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Régnier-Desmarais, François-Séraphin; Regnier-Desmarais, abbé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat, poet, philologist, Romance scholar, grammarian and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1632
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1713
Place of death Paris