Irville Charles LeCompte
Irville Charles LeCompte (born July 31, 1872 in Pittston , Pennsylvania , † April 5, 1957 in Newton Center , Massachusetts , USA) was an American Romanist.
Life
Irville Charles LeCompte was born the second of four children to Charles Thomas LeCompte and Mary Jane Calkins. LeCompte studied from 1891 to 1897 at Wesleyan University in Middletown , CT and from 1897 to 1900 at Columbia University in New York . In 1905/1906 he was enrolled at the (then) Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität in Strasbourg , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . Corporated Alfons Maria Jakob inspired him in 1905 to become a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Rappoltstein in Strasbourg (today Cologne) in the CV ; for membership in the newly founded Rappoltstein he was accepted by the KDSt.V. Badenia (Strasbourg) Frankfurt am Main exempted. In 1907 LeCompte studied for a semester at the Paris Sorbonne .
In 1907 LeCompte became professor of Romance studies at Yale University in New Haven , and in 1917 he moved to the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis . In 1941 he retired. After his retirement he studied Russian and worked on numerous technical translations, including a. on behalf of NATO .
LeCompte became famous for his research into ancient French literature. In 1931 he published the book Anthology of Modern French Literature with Colbert Searles . In 1937 he wrote the Unified French Course with Myrtle Sundeen .
LeCompte married Harriet Bernice MacLachlan in 1902. The marriage produced a son.
Fonts
- Human Geography, an Attempt at a Positive Classification, Principles and Examples , 1920
- Romans des Romans , Paris 1923
- Anthology of Modern French Literature , 1931/1937
- Unified French Course: an Integrated Course for Beginners , 1937
literature
- Irville C. LeCompte in Friedrich J. Ortwein: Rappoltstein Chronicle 1905-2005
Web links
- LeCompte Genealogy
- Literature by and about Irville Charles LeCompte in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | LeCompte, Irville Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Romance Studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittston , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5th 1957 |
| Place of death | Newton Center , Massachusetts |