Gaston Paris
Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris (born August 9, 1839 in Avenay-Val-d'Or , † March 5, 1903 in Cannes ) was a French philologist.
Gaston Paris was the son of the writer and philologist Paulin Paris . He studied a. a. in Bonn with Friedrich Diez Romance philology and was professor of French language and literature at the Collège de France in Paris from 1872 . He was active in many fields, but mainly devoted himself to French literature of the Middle Ages and established Romance philology as an independent discipline in France by transferring the philological method developed by Karl Lachmann to the edition of Old French and Old Provencal texts. Here he was in lively exchange with the Swiss Romance scholar Adolf Tobler , whom he had met while studying in Bonn. He wrote a Grammaire historique de la langue française (1868), in which he also opposed the linguistic puristic tendencies in French grammarography. Paris founded the French interdisciplinary review magazine Revue critique d'histoire et de littérature (1866–1935) and the specialist journal for Romance studies Romania (1872–).
In 1901 Paris was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
literature
- Ursula Bähler, Gaston Paris et la philologie romane (= Publications romanes et françaises. Vol. 234). Droz, Geneva 2004, ISBN 2-600-00868-3 .
- Jürgen Storost : Gaston Paris. In: Jürgen Storost: 300 years of Romance languages and literatures at the Berlin Academy of Sciences (= Berlin contributions to the history of science. Vol. 4). Volume 1. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2000, ISBN 3-631-38312-6 , pp. 247-256 (also: Berlin, Freie Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2000).
- Jürgen Storost: Paul Meyer, Hugo Schuchardt, Jean Pierre Rousselot, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Gaston Paris, Jules Giliéron, Charles du Tourtoulon. I. Aspects of the change in method in the French dialectology of the 19th century. II. The Société des Parlers de France. In: Jürgen Storost: In memoriam Vladimiro Macchi. Aspects of the history of science. Selected subjects (= treatises on language and literature. Vol. 172). Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-86143-181-7 , pp. 124-168.
Web links
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paris, Gaston |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Paris, Bruno Paulin Gaston |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Avenay-Val-d'Or |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 5, 1903 |
| Place of death | Cannes |