Gaston Monod

Gaston Frédéric Eugène Monod (born August 1, 1883 in Bourdeaux , † August 20, 1914 at Fonteny ) was a French linguist and literary scholar.

Life

Monod grew up as the son of the physician Eugène Monod (1850-1937) in Bordeaux . He was also the nephew of the historian Gabriel Monod . He graduated from the École des Chartes and was then brought in by Karl Lamprecht as a lecturer at the Leipzig Institute for Cultural and Universal History . As the successor to Gustave Cohen, he taught French language (“Exercices pratiques de français”) from the summer semester of 1909, but also held events on French culture and literature. His exercises were well attended and, as the institute director Lamprecht emphasizes, “have proven to be extremely suitable for promoting the spiritual exchange between our two nations and especially among the numerous members of the institute (370 this semester) for a sense and love for them to spread French culture ”.

Monod also published articles on German literature in French magazines, e.g. B. on the work of Bernhard Kellermann . For the Bibliographical Institute he took over the revision of the “French phrasebook”, the fifth edition of which was published posthumously in 1915 and another edition in 1935.

For Monod, who taught as a Frenchman in Germany and had been married to a woman from Leipzig since September 8, 1908, the onset of the First World War was particularly tragic. He fought on the French side in the 344th Infantry Regiment and fell in Lorraine in the first days of the war . The obituary of the Revue Mondiale says: "Le Destin a voulu qu'il fût la victime de ceux-là mêmes qu'il avait mis toute son intelligence à bien comprendre."

Works

Wikisource: L'Œuvre de Bernhard Kellermann - sources and full texts (French)

French phrasebook. Pocket dictionary for travel and home. 6., rework. Ed. Leipzig: Bibliographical Institute 1935.

Web links

Literature by and about Gaston Monod in the catalog of the German National Library
Overview of Gaston Monod's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1909 to summer semester 1912)
Foreword to the fifth edition of the "French PhraseBook" (1915)

Individual evidence

↑ See Horst Walter Blanke: Self-reflection on history in upheaval. Historiography history with Lamprecht and his students . In the S. (Ed.): Transformation of Historicism. Science organization and educational policy before the First World War. Interpretations and documents. Waltrop: Spenner 1994. pp. 112–153, here p. 128. The genealogical diagrams by Gaston Monod and Gabriel Monod , however, do not suggest a direct relationship.
↑ Lamprecht is quoted from: Matthias Middell: World History in the Age of Technicalization and Professionalization. The Leipzig Institute for Cultural and Universal History 1890–1990. Volume 2. Akademische Verlagsanstalt 2005. S. 544.
↑ Ibid., P. 478.
↑ See La Revue Mondiale , Vol. 109, p. 595.

personal data
SURNAME	Monod, Gaston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Monod, Gaston Frédéric Eugène (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French linguist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	August 1, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bourdeaux
DATE OF DEATH	August 20, 1914
Place of death	at Fonteny

[1] See Horst Walter Blanke: Self-reflection on history in upheaval. Historiography history with Lamprecht and his students . In the S. (Ed.): Transformation of Historicism. Science organization and educational policy before the First World War. Interpretations and documents. Waltrop: Spenner 1994. pp. 112–153, here p. 128. The genealogical diagrams by Gaston Monod and Gabriel Monod , however, do not suggest a direct relationship.

[2] Lamprecht is quoted from: Matthias Middell: World History in the Age of Technicalization and Professionalization. The Leipzig Institute for Cultural and Universal History 1890–1990. Volume 2. Akademische Verlagsanstalt 2005. S. 544.

[3] Ibid., P. 478.

[4] See La Revue Mondiale , Vol. 109, p. 595.