Henri Hauvette

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Henri Hauvette (born January 24, 1865 in Paris , † February 14, 1935 ibid) was a French Romance scholar, Italianist and comparative literary scholar.

life and work

Hauvette attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris , studied and passed the Agrégation in 1888. He was then a high school teacher in Chartres (1889-1893) and Gap (1893-1895). From November 1895 he was Maître de conférences at the University of Grenoble . In 1903 he completed his habilitation in Paris with Emile Gebhart with the two theses Un exilé florentin à la cour de France au XVIe siècle. Luigi Alamanni, 1495-1556, sa vie et son œuvre (Paris 1903) and De Laurentio de Primofato (Laurent de Premierfait) qui primus Joannis Boccacii opera quaedam gallice transtulit ineunte seculo XVe (Paris 1903), became professor in Grenoble, then at the Sorbonne 1906 Chargé de cours, 1908 Maître de conférences, 1910 Professeur adjoint and 1918 Full Professor of Italian Literature and Language. He belonged to the editorial committee of the journal Bulletin italien (1901-1918), as well as its successor Etudes italiennes (edited by the Union intellectuelle franco-italienne 1919-1935). Hauvette was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres .

Henri Hauvette was the son of the Indologist Eugène-Louis Hauvette-Besnault (1820-1880) and the brother of the librarian Amédée Hauvette (1856-1908).

Other works

  • Dante nella poesia francese del Rinascimento, Florence 1901
  • Una confessione del Boccaccio. Il Corbaccio, Florence 1905
  • Littérature italienne, Paris 1906 ( Histoires des Littératures ), 8th edition 1932 (Russian: Moscow 1922)
  • Les plus anciennes traductions françaises de Boccace (XIVe-XVIIe siècle), in: Bulletin Italy 1907-1909
  • Ghirlandaio, Paris 1908
  • Le Sodoma. Biographie critique, Paris 1912
  • Dante. Introduction à l'étude de la "Divine comédie", Paris 1911 (Dutch: Amsterdam 1913)
  • Boccace. Étude biographique et littéraire, Paris 1914
  • Études sur la Divine Comédie. La composition du poème et son rayonnement, Paris 1922
  • La Divine comédie. Traduction, introduction et analyzes, 2 vols., Paris 1927
  • L'Arioste et la poésie chevaleresque à Ferrare au début du XVIe siècle, Paris 1927
  • La France et la Provence dans l'œuvre de Dante, Paris 1929
  • Les poésies lyriques de Pétrarque, Paris 1931
  • La "Morte vivante". Étude de littérature comparée, Paris 1933
  • Études sur Boccace (1894-1916), Turin 1968

literature

  • Mélanges de philologie, d'histoire et de littérature offerts à Henri Hauvette, Paris 1934, Geneva 1972 (with list of publications)
  • Abel Lefranc, obituary in: Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Comptes-rendus 79, 1935, pp. 46-54
  • Sébastien Camugli in: Les langues méridionales 1935
  • Jean-Claude Polet, Patrimoine littéraire européen. Anthologie en langue française, vol. 13, Brussels 2000, p. 412 ( Google Books )

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personal data
SURNAME Hauvette, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hauvette, Enrico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1935
Place of death Paris