François Romain Cambouliu

François Romain Cambouliu (born August 9, 1820 in Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda , † October 29, 1869 in Montpellier ) was a French Romanist , Catalanist and Provençalist .

life and work

Cambouliu studied in Montpellier (graduated in 1844) and taught in schools in Perpignan (1841), Bédarieux (1843), Pau (1854), Algiers (1847), Toulouse (1850) and Montpellier (1854).

In 1855 he received his doctorate at the University of Toulouse with the Thèses Les femmes d'Homère (Paris 1855) and De praecipuis historiae incrementis from Herodoto usque ad Bossuetii tempora (Toulouse 1854) and taught ancient literature at the University of Strasbourg from 1859 . From 1862 until his untimely death he was Professor of Ancient Literature at the University of Montpellier .

Cambouliu is one of the rediscoverers of old Catalan literature . His study of 1855 was translated into Catalan and received reprints in 1911 (Catalan) and 2010 (French).

Works

• Essai sur l'histoire de la littérature catalane , Montpellier 1855 (70 pages), Paris 1858, Nîmes 2010 (189 pages; Catalan: Assaig histórich sobre la literatura catalana antiga ; also in: Història de la literatura catalana antiga. Aplech d'estudis per la seva formació , Barcelona 1911, together with a text by Manuel Milà i Fontanals )
• Renaissance de la Poésie Provençale à Toulouse au XIVe siècle, in: Yearbooks for Romance and English Literature 3, 1860, 2nd issue

literature

• Alexandre Germain (1809–1887), Discours prononcé aux funérailles de M. Cambouliu, professeur de littérature ancienne à la faculté des lettres de Montpellier, le 30 octobre 1869 , Montpellier 1869

Web links

• Literature by and about François Romain Cambouliu in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Information on François Romain Cambouliu in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .