Henry G. Schogt

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Henry Gilius Schogt (born May 24, 1927 in Amsterdam , † April 12, 2020 in Toronto ) was a Dutch-born Canadian linguist, Romanist and Slavist .

life and work

Schogt went to school in the Netherlands. He studied Russian and French at the University of Amsterdam (graduating in 1952). He received his doctorate from the University of Utrecht with the dissertation Les causes de la double issue de e fermé tonique libre en français (Amsterdam 1960), was Maître-Assistant at the Sorbonne from 1963 to 1964 , and visiting lecturer for Russian and French from 1964 to 1966 at Princeton University and from 1966 to 1992 Professor of French and Linguistics at the University of Toronto . He was a member of the Royal Society of Canada (1977).

In 2003, Schogt went public with a souvenir book ( The Curtain ) in which he (together with his Jewish wife) worked in English (later also in French) on their personal experiences of the war in Amsterdam under the National Socialist occupation .

Works

  • "Temps et verbe" de Gustave Guillaume , trente-cinq ans après sa parution, in: La Linguistique 1, 1965, pp. 55-74
  • Le système verbal du français contemporain , The Hague 1968
  • Sémantique synchronique. Synonymie, homonymie, polysémie , Toronto 1976
  • (Ed. With Pierre Léon and Edward Burstynsky) La phonologie 1. Les écoles et les théories , Paris 1977
  • Linguistics, Literary Analysis and Literary Translation , Toronto 1988
  • (Translator) Sem Dresden (1914–2002), Persecution, extermination, literature , Toronto 1995
  • The curtain. Witness and memory in wartime Holland , Waterloo, Ontario 2003
    • Le rideau (1939-1945). Souvenirs des années de guerre dans la Hollande occupée. The curtain (1939-1945). Witness and memory in wartime Holland , Toronto 2010 (bilingual)

literature

  • Significations. Essais en l'honneur d'Henry Schogt. Essays in honor of Henry Schogt , ed. from Parth Bhatt, Toronto 1995
  • Lance Goddard, Canada and the Liberation of the Netherlands , May 1945, Toronto 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henry Schogt Obituary. In: The Globe and Mail. Legacy.com, April 18, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schogt, Henry G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schogt, Henry Gilius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian linguist, Romanist and Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2020
Place of death Toronto