Georges Doutrepont

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Georges Doutrepont (born October 17, 1868 in Herve ; † May 26, 1941 ) was a Belgian Romance studies , linguist and literary scholar .

life and work

Georges Doutrepont (not to be confused with his older brother Auguste Doutrepont ) studied in Liège with Maurice Wilmotte , passed the Agrégation in 1890, became a lecturer at the University of Halle and in 1891 succeeded Joseph Bédier at the University of Friborg in Switzerland. From 1894 to 1938 he was full professor of French literature at the Catholic University of Leuven, succeeding Léon de Monge (1834-1894). Together with François Bethune , he founded the Department of Romance Philology and the journal Bulletin d'histoire linguistique et littéraire française des Pays-Bas . During the First World War he taught in Paris at the École pratique des hautes études . At the beginning of the Second World War he fled to Montpellier. He died in Belgium.

Georges Doutrepont was elected to the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique in 1921 and in 1930 as a full member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium . He was an honorary doctor of the Universities of Bordeaux (1929) and Montpellier (1934) and a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .

Works

  • Tableau et théorie de la conjugaison dans le wallon liégeois, Liège 1891
  • Étude linguistique sur Jacques de Hemricourt et son époque, Brussels 1892
  • (Translator with Auguste Doutrepont) Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke , Grammaire des langues romanes, Vols. 2–4, Paris 1895–1906, Geneva / Marseille 1974
  • (Ed.) Inventaire de la "librairie" de Philippe le Bon (1420), Brussels 1906, Geneva 1977
  • La Littérature française à la cour des ducs de Bourgogne Philippe le Hardi, Jean sans Peur, Philippe le Bon, Charles le Téméraire, Paris 1909, Geneva 1970
  • Les Types populaires de la littérature française, 2 vols., Brussels 1926–1928
  • Les Prénoms français à sens péjoratif, Brussels 1929
  • La Condamnation de banquet de Nicole de La Chesnaye, Brussels 1931
  • Jean Lemaire de Belges et la Renaissance, Brussels 1934, Geneva 1974
  • (Ed. With Omer Jodogne ) Chroniques de Jean Molinet, 3 vols., Brussels 1935–1937
  • Les Proscrits du coup d'État du Deux-Décembre 1851 en Belgique. Notes historiques et littéraires, Brussels 1938
  • Histoire illustrée de la littérature française en Belgique. Précis méthodique, Brussels 1939
  • Les Mises en prose des épopées et des romans chevaleresques du XIVe au XVIe siècle, Brussels 1939, Geneva 1969, 2011
  • La littérature et la société, Brussels 1942

literature

  • Robert Guiette in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 20, 1941, pp. 844–849

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personal data
SURNAME Doutrepont, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Herve
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1941
Place of death Le Mans