Honorary Rambaud

Honorat Rambaud (* around 1516 in Gap ; † 1586 ) was a French Romanist and spelling reformer.

Life

Rambaud was schoolmaster in Marseille from 1546 . In 1567 he designed an alphabet reform for the French language , in which the traditional letters of the French alphabet were replaced by 52 newly invented letters in order to achieve greater proximity to the pronunciation and better legibility of the syllables. The work, which was published in 1578 and had a universal claim that had no effect, was reprinted in the 20th century and received intense reception by experts because of its radical nature and its historical informativity.

Works

• La déclaration des abus que l'on commet en écrivant et le moyen de les éviter et représenter naïvement les paroles, ce que jamais homme n'a fait , Lyon 1578, Menston 1970, Geneva 1972

literature

• Robert E. Bousquet, The sixteenth century quest for a reformed orthography. The alphabet of Honorat Rambaud, in: Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 43, 1981, pp. 545-566
• Huguette Hermans, La "Déclaration des abus" d'Honorat Rambaud comme témoin du système phonologique du moyen français , Thèse Löwen 1985
• Geneviève Clerico, L'ignorance de cent mille millions d'hommes et le moyen d'y remédier: Honorat Rambaud et l'alphabet (1578), in: Nouvelle Revue du XVIe Siècle 17, 1999, pp. 107-145
• Willy Van Hoecke, La déclaration des abus (1578) d'Honorat Rambaud. La pratique de l'enseignement de l'écriture et la nécessité d'un système universel de transcription phonétique, in: The History of Linguistic and Grammatical Praxis. Proceedings of the international colloquium of the study group "History of Linguistics", ed. by Piet Desmet et al., Löwen 2000, pp. 43-61
• Antónia Szabari, Le faisable qui ne se fait pas. La fantaisie évangélique de l'écriture chez Honorat Rambaud, in: Lyon et l'illustration de la langue française à la Renaissance , ed. by Gérard Defaux , Lyon 2003, pp. 183-207

Web links

• Literature by and about Honorat Rambaud in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)