Jaume March

Jaume March (* around 1334 / 35 in Valencia , † 1410 in Barcelona ) was a Catalan poet, linguist , Katalanist and lexicographer.

life and work

March was a Catalan nobleman in the service of Peter IV and John I of Aragon. He wrote Catalan poetry and in 1371 under the title Llibre de concordances appelat diccionari an important rhyming dictionary with 6000 words, which was published in 1921 by Antoni Griera .

Jaume March was the brother of the poet Pere March (1336-1413) and the uncle of the poet Ausiàs March (1379-1459).

Works

• Diccionari de rims . Edited by Antonio Griera y Gaja, Barcelona 1921 (133 pages)
• Les Cobles de Jacme, Pere i Arnau March. La poesia lírica d'abans d'Auzias March . Edited by Amadeu Pagès, Castelló de la Plana 1934
• La "Vesio". Poèmes provenço-catalans du XIVe siècle de Bernat de So, de Jacme March, de Joan de Castelnou . Translated and edited. by Amédée Pagès , Toulouse 1945
• Les "Coblas", ou les Poésies lyriques provenço-catalanes de Jacme, Pere et Arnau March . Translated and edited. by Amédée Pagès, Toulouse 1949
• Cobles i noves rimades . Edited by Jaume Vidal Alcover, Valencia 1987
• Obra poètica . Edited by Josep Pujol, Barcelona 1994

literature

• Günther Haensch: 184. Catalan Lexicography . In: Franz Josef Hausmann , Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand, Ladislav Zgusta (eds.): Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of the volume . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990, ISBN 3-11-012420-3 , pp. 1770–1788.

Web links

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