Gérard de Vivre

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Gérard de Vivre (* in the 16th century in Ghent ; † before 1597) was a grammarian and foreign language teacher of French in Cologne.

Life

Vivre fled from the Flemish riots to Cologne , where he settled down as a French teacher (primarily for merchants) from 1563.

He wrote “the first ever French grammar intended for Germans, written in German and printed in Germany” (Greive) and dedicated it to a student, “Arnold von Segen”, son or grandson of councilor Arnold von Siegen . It is a formal grammar that is poor in explanations as the basis for the oral lessons, for which Vivre wrote the text materials (dialogues, letters, etc.) herself.

He called the associated dictionary, which he also published, Synonyma . It was a bilingual phraseology arranged according to expressive intentions , which offered several idiomatic solutions for the verbalization of a basic idea . In the article “Accompaigner / Gesellschetzt thun” the user found ten phrases, including “Nous vous acheminerons. We will bring you to the wech ”and“ Ils nous mettront en chemin. They will open us to the change ”.

After all, Vivre composed comedies that were intended to be performed by the students and can therefore be used as teaching and learning material.

Works

  • Grammaire françoise , touchant la lecture, déclinaisons des noms et conjuguaisons des verbes, le tout mis en françois et en allemang. Frantzösische Grammatik , Cologne 1566 ( Grammaire françoise , 1566; suivie de Briefve institution de la langue françoise expliquée en aleman , 1568, translated and edited by Brigitte Hébert, Paris 2006)
  • Briefve institution de la langue francoise , Cologne 1568
  • Synonymes , c'est-à-dire plusieurs propos, propres tant en escrivant qu'en parlant, tirez quasi tous à un même sens, pour montrer la richesse de la langue françoise, recueilliz en françois & aleman. Synonyma . It is a gathering of many words of the same mind and opinion, showing the richness of the French languages, both in writing and in reading. Collected in French and German languages. By Gerhardum vivre, public reader and schoolmaster of the bemelter languages, in the laudable imperial city of Cölln, Cologne 1569 (edited by Barbara Kaltz, Hamburg 1988)
  • Dialogues françois-flamengs , traictans du faict de la marchandise = Tsamensprekingen in Fransoys ende Duytsche, tracterende vanden trade of the coopmanschappen, Antwerp 1573
  • Les fondaments de la langue francoise , Cologne 1574
  • Douze dialogues et colloques , Antwerp 1574, last Rotterdam 1610
  • Lettres missives familieres , Antwerp 1575, last Cologne 1616
  • Lettres missives familières entremeslees de certaines confabulations non moins utiles que recreatiues. Ensemble Deux liures de l'utilité du train de marchandise , Waesberge, Anvers 1576 ( digitized )
  • Comédie de la fidélité nuptiale , Paris 1578
  • Des Amours de Theseus et Dianira , Paris 1578
  • Trois comedies Francaises , Rotterdam 1589, Antwerp 1602

literature

  • Artur Greive , French language teaching and grammar in Cologne around 1600, in: The French in the German-speaking countries , ed. by Wolfgang Dahmen et al., Tübingen 1993, pp. 171–180
  • Mechtild Bierbach, The Beginnings of French Lessons in the Rhineland in the 16th Century: Gérard de Vivre, in: Romance Studies in Past and Present 3, 1997, pp. 27–47
  • Mechtild Bierbach, Les Synonymes (1569) de Gérard de Vivre, in: Mélanges de lexicographie et de linguistique françaises et romanes dédiés à la mémoire de Manfred Höfler , Paris 1997, pp. 97–127 (Travaux de Linguistique et de Philologie 35-36 )
  • Pierre Swiggers, 17b. History of grammars and linguistic teachings of Romance languages ​​outside of Romania, in: Lexikon der Romance Linguistik (LRL), ed. by Günter Holtus, Michael Metzeltin and Christian Schmitt, vol. 1.1. History of Romance Studies. Methodology (Das Sprachsystem ), Tübingen 2001, pp. 505-517 (in French)

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personal data
SURNAME Vivre, Gérard de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Du Vivier, Gérard; Vijvere, Geeraert vanden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Grammarian and foreign language teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century