François-Urbain Domergue

François-Urbain Domergue (born March 24, 1745 in Aubagne , Département Bouches-du-Rhône , † May 29, 1810 in Paris ) was a French grammarian and journalist.

Domergue was the son of a pharmacist. After leaving school in his hometown, he studied at the College of Oratory in Marseille . He then got a job as a teacher in Lyon , where he also married the daughter of a doctor.

In 1784, Domergue founded the journal “Journal de la langue françoise”. He later settled in Paris, where he soon founded the Sociéte des amateurs de la langue française . Through this project and his publications, including in other magazines, he became aware of him and appointed him professor for grammar and language at the Collège des Quatre Nations (Paris). Domergue later moved to the Lycée Charlemagne in the same position .

In 1803, the Académie française Domergue took over as the successor to the late physician Félix Vicq d'Azyr in its ranks (armchair 1). After his death in 1810, the poet Ange-François Fariau de Saint-Ange followed him in this position.

Works (selection)

as an author

• Grammaire françoise simplifiée . Lyon 1778.

as editor

• French Language Journal .

literature

• Winfried Busse, Françoise Dougnac: François-Urbain Domergue. Le grammairien patriote (1745-1810) . (= Lingua et traditio; Vol. 10). Narr, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-8233-4800-0

Web links

• Literature by and about François-Urbain Domergue in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)