Georges Gougenheim

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Georges Gougenheim (born July 20, 1900 in Paris , † July 29, 1972 in Les Sables-d'Olonne , Vendée ) was a French Romance scholar and linguist.

life and work

Gougenheim, who attended the Lycée Condorcet , was admitted to the Ecole Normale in 1920, passed the Agrégation in 1923 and was a high school teacher in Amiens from 1925 to 1929. In 1929 he defended his two habilitation theses Etude sur les périphrases verbales de la langue française (Paris 1929, 1971) and La langue populaire dans le premier quart du XIXe siècle d'après le Petit dictionnaire du Peuple, de JCLP Desgranges (1821) (Paris 1929 ). He was then Maître de conférences in Clermont-Ferrand . From 1935 to 1955 he held the chair for French language history in Strasbourg , interrupted by war and imprisonment in the German officers' camp, where he a. a. worked scientifically with Pierre-Maxime Schuhl. From 1955 until his retirement in 1968 he was a professor at the Sorbonne and since 1965 an officer of the Legion of Honor.

Gougenheim made a name for himself as a grammarian, phonologist, linguist, including speaking French, and as a lexicologist. He worked on the great post-war enterprise of the “Français Fondamental” and based on this he wrote a didactic dictionary.

Other works

  • Eléments de phonologie française , 1935
  • Système grammatical de la langue française , 1938 (1966, 1969, 1974)
  • (together with Pierre Maxime Schuhl) Trois essais de Montaigne I-39, II-1, III-2 , Paris 1951, 2nd edition 1959
  • Grammaire de la langue française au XVIe siècle , 1951, reprinted 1974, 1984
  • (together with René Michéa, Paul Rivenc and Aurélien Sauvageot ) L'Élaboration du français élémentaire. Etude sur l'établissement d'un vocabulaire et d'une grammaire de base , Paris 1956, 2nd revised edition, under the title L'Élaboration du français fondamental , Paris 1964 (also 1971)
  • Dictionnaire fondamental de la langue française , Paris 1958, expanded 1961, new edition 1963, 1977
  • Les Mots français dans l'histoire et dans la vie , 1962, 1966 (1989/90, 2008 with a foreword by Alain Rey )
  • Etudes de grammaire et de vocabulaire français réunies pour son soixante-dixième anniversaire , Paris 1970

literature

  • Dictionnaire de biography française sv
  • Yakov Malkiel in: Romance Philology 27, 1973/74, pp. 58-61
  • Claude Régnier in: Romania 94, 1973, pp. 140-141
  • Pierre Maxime Schuhl in: Revue philosophique 163, 1973, pp. 507-508
  • Jacqueline Pinchon: Georges Gougenheim (1900–1972). Traditionalisme et Modernité, in: La grammaire française entre comparatisme et structuralisme 1870-1960 , ed. by Hélène Huot, Paris 1991, pp. 257-311

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personal data
SURNAME Gougenheim, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th July 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1972
Place of death Les Sables-d'Olonne , Vendée department