François Louis Poëtevin

François Louis Poëtevin (* 1707 in Bern ; † in the 18th or 19th century) was a Swiss Romance philologist , grammarian and lexicographer who worked in Eßlingen , Worms and Lausanne .

life and work

Poëtevin was language master for French at high schools in Eßlingen and Worms, then teacher ("régent") at the Collège in Lausanne. His extensive bilingual French-German and German-French dictionary from 1754 (published by the Johann Rudolf Im Hof ​​publishing house in Basel, founded in 1744) proudly bears the title “Swiss dictionary” and is thus in that of the German (less of the French) dictionaries dominated dictionary landscape an exception, but in contrast to his grammar (of which Goethe speaks in a letter of October 13, 1766) experienced only one additional edition in 1783.

Works

• (with Josef Anton von Ehrenreich) Perfect language funnel or new theoretical-practical French-German and Italian grammar. Le parfait entonnoir des langues ou la nouvelle grammaire française-allemande-Italienne. Perfetto imbottatoio delle lingue overo nuova grammatica theorico-prattica, Ludwigsburg 1728, Ulm 1729
  • Theoretical-practical grammatica of the French and Italian languages , Leipzig / Frankfurt / Stuttgart 1770
• L'Art de délier la langue par le moien de 52 Dialogues , Eßlingen 1731 (subject group dictionary, grammar, sample texts)
• Nouvelle et parfaite grammaire françoise et allemande. New and perfect theoretical-practical grammatica , Lausanne 1745 (5th edition, Biel 1765; editions in Frankfurt am Main and Mainz)
• Essai d'une nouvelle méthode pour enseigner la jeunesse à mettre facilement en usage dans la composition les règles de la syntaxe latine , Lausanne 1748 (374 pages; supplement to the Grammaire latine by Samuel Leresche, Lausanne 1742)
• Le nouveau dictionnaire suisse, françois-allemand et allemand-françois , Basel 1754 (1246 + 918 pages, publisher was Johann Rudolf Im Hof, who founded his publishing house in 1744), Basel 1783 (4 vols., 1259+? Pages)
  • New German and French dictionary set up according to the purest style of speaking and writing (title of the German-French part)

literature

• Albert de Montet, Dictionnaire biographique des Genevois et des Vaudois , qui se sont distingués dans leur pays ou à l'étranger par leurs talents, leurs actions, leurs oeuvres littéraires ou artistiques. Vol. 1, Lausanne 1878, p. 312
• The young Goethe , ed. by Hanna Fischer-Lamberg, Vol. 1, Berlin 1999, p. 119

Web links

• Information on François Louis Poëtevin in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp00944335 (entry)