François Roux (Romanist)

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François Roux (born May 9, 1674 in Vienne , Département Isère , † March 7, 1750 in Jena ) was a German Romance philologist , grammarian and lexicographer of French origin.

life and work

François Roux, father of Heinrich Friedrich Roux , grandfather of Jakob Wilhelm Roux and ancestor of Georg Melchior Kraus and Paul Roux , studied in Grenoble , converted to Protestantism and went to Germany as a persecuted Huguenot . He studied law at the University of Jena and became a private tutor, then a lecturer in French at the same university (at a time when there were no professorships in this subject). His students included u. a. the future Duke Ernst August I. (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) . From 1711 he was also secretary of his uncle, Duke Wilhelm Ernst (Sachsen-Weimar) .

Roux supervised the dissertation of Johann Friedrich von Westenholtz, Sur l'usage de la langue françoise en Allemagne (Jena 1713), which attests to his status as a university lecturer.

Works

  • Novum Lumen Linguæ Gallicæ Ex Optimis Gentis Illius Scriptoribus Accensum , Jena 1711 (A Francisco Roux Linguæ Gall. Lectore Publ. In Academia Jenensi)
  • Dialogues Familiers, Et Autres contenant quelques difficultez de Grammaire , Jena 1712 (137 pages)
  • Essay d'observations nouvelles sur la langue françoise , Frankfurt am Main 1716 (80 pages)
    • Second essai d'observations nouvelles sur la langue française , Jena 1736 (80 pages)
  • Grammaire ducale, Or Thorough Instruction on the French Language , put into proper rules and annotated, Jena 1720 (762 pages)
    • (with others) Thorough instruction on the French language , drawn up by some language masters privileged and lecturing at the Jena University, 3rd edition, Jena 1746
  • Dictionnaire nouveau françois et allemand, allemand et françois . New German-French dictionary , Jena 1744 (763 + 573 pages, later ud T. Nouveau dictionnaire 11 editions up to Halle 1809)

literature

  • Franz Josef Hausmann , Les dictionnaires bilingues (et multilingues) en Europe au XVIIIe siècle. Acquis et suggestions de recherche, in: Travaux de linguistique et de philologie 26, 1988, pp. 11–32 (here: 24)
  • Konrad Schröder, biographical and bibliographical lexicon of foreign language teachers in German-speaking countries. Late Middle Ages to 1800 . Volume 4, Augsburg 1995
  • Jean A. Caravolas, Histoire de la didactique des langues au siècle des Lumières. Précis et anthologie thématique , Montreal / Tübingen 2000, p. 491
  • Bio-bibliographical concise dictionary on linguistics of the 18th century , ed. by Herbert Ernst Brekle and Edeltraud Dobnig-Jülch et al., Vol. 7. PE-SCHR, Tübingen 2001 sv

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personal data
SURNAME Roux, François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roux, Franciscus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romance philologist, grammarian and lexicographer of French origin
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1674
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienne , Isère department
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1750
Place of death Jena