Georges Castellana
Georges Castellana (* 1898 in Nice , † 1964 in Nice) was a French Romanist , Occitanist and lexicographer .
life and work
Castellana worked from 1923 to 1929 as a priest in the hinterland of Nice, then in the old town of Nice as a seminary teacher, pastor and finally as canon of the Sainte-Réparate Cathedral.
He compiled two valuable Nissart dictionaries , the Dictionnaire français-niçois (Nice 1947, 1978, 1983, 1997, 421 pages), then the Dictionnaire niçois-français (Nice 1952, 1977, 1983, 1997, 276 pages).
A street in Nice is named after him.
Other works
- La cathédrale Sainte-Réparate , Nice 1956, 1970
literature
- Jean Fourié, Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue d'oc de 1800 à nos jours , Paris 1994
Web links
- Biography of Georges Castellana on nicerendezvous.com (French)
- Literature by and about Georges Castellana in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Georges Castellana in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Castellana, Georges |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romance philologist, Occitanist and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nice |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1964 |
| Place of death | Nice |