Henri Cottez

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Henri Cottez (* 1913 in the Jura department ; † December 27, 1999 in Paris ) was a French Hellenist, Romanist , poet and lexicographer .

life and work

Cottez was a student of the philosopher Alain at the Lycée Henri IV , then (together with Georges Pompidou and Léopold Sédar Senghor ) a graduate of the École normal supérieure and (after teaching in France, Greece and Morocco) Maître-assistant at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III). From 1954 (volume 3, published 1957) he worked for the Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française in six volumes by Paul Robert (known under the title "Grand Robert", 1953-1964, further editions 1985 and 2001) and the resulting derived dictionaries. In the nineties he worked intensively on the terminology of aquatic life (in the Comité National Français des Sciences Hydrologiques, CNFSH).

Works

lexicography

  • (with Alain Rey and Josette Rey-Debove ) Paul Robert, Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française , Paris 1967 (known as "Petit Robert", numerous editions)
  • Dictionnaire des structures du vocabulaire savant. Eléments et modèles de formation , Paris 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1992 (dedicated to the memory of Émile Benveniste )
  • (Staff) Datations et documents lexicographiques. Matériaux pour l'histoire du vocabulaire français , ed. by Bernard Quemada , Paris 1988 ff.

Other works

  • (Ed.) André Chénier , Poésies choisies , Paris 1936, 1957, 1966 (Classiques illustrés Vaubourdolle 69)
  • Douce à la mort. Poèmes , Paris 1948 (extended 1983)

literature

  • Elisabeth Link, The Dictionary of Word Forming Means, in: Dictionaries. An international handbook on lexicography , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann , Oskar Reichmann , Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta , second volume, Berlin / New York 1990, pp. 1223–1230
  • L'Humanité December 30, 1999
  • Liberation December 30, 1999
  • Alain Rey, Dictionnaire amoureux des dictionnaires , Paris 2011, pp. 267–270

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personal data
SURNAME Cottez, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Hellenist, Romanist, poet and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Jura department
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1999
Place of death Paris