François Bethune

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François Bethune (born March 18, 1868 in Ghent , † November 1, 1938 in Leuven ) was a Belgian Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

The Baron François Bethune was 1892-1893 a student of Gaston Paris . Together with Georges Doutrepont , he founded the Department of Romance Philology at the Catholic University of Leuven and was a professor there from 1893 to 1938, but published very little. Bethune was the teacher of Alphonse Bayot and Omer Jodogne .

Works

  • Les écoles historiques de Saint-Denis et Saint-Germain-des-Prés dans leur rapport avec la composition des Grandes Chroniques de France. In: Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 4 , 1903, pp. 24–38 and 207–230
  • (Ed. Together with Georges Doutrepont) Bulletin d'histoire linguistique et littéraire française des Pays-Bas 1902–1905. Bruges 1906

literature

  • Robert Guiette in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 18, 1939, pp. 359–361
  • Fernand Mayence / Omer Jodogne: In memoriam le baron François Bethune, professeur de philologie romane à l'Université catholique de Louvain. 1868 - 1938. Brussels 1940 (with picture)

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