Jean-Baptiste Cerlogne
Jean-Baptiste Cerlogne (born March 6, 1826 in Saint-Nicolas ; † October 7, 1910 ibid) was an Italian pastor, poet and dialectologist . His writings on the grammar and vocabulary of the dialect of the Aosta Valley are important for the history of the Franco-Provence language .
Life
Jean-Baptiste Cerlogne was born on March 26, 1826 in the town of Cerlogne, in the parish of Saint-Nicolas, the son of the school teacher. In 1837, like many people from the Aosta Valley, he emigrated to the south of France at a young age and found employment in the Hôtel des Princes in Marseille . In 1845 he returned to Saint-Nicolas to attend the village school. In 1847 he joined the army of the Sardinian-Piedmontese King Karl Albert and took part in the First Italian War of Independence in the battles of Santa Lucia on May 6, 1848 and Goito on May 30, 1848; He was taken prisoner by Austria , from which he returned on September 7, 1848. He fought again in the Battle of Novara on March 23, 1849 and then went back to the Aosta Valley.
From 1852 on he worked as a cook at the seminary in Aosta . In 1856 he began to study theology under the supervision of the pastor of Saint-Nicolas, Don Basile Guichardaz, which he continued from 1859 in the seminary in Aosta. After studying and first positions as vicar, Jean-Baptiste Cerlogne was appointed pastor of Valgrisenche in the western Aosta Valley in 1865 . In the following years he headed various parishes in the Aosta Valley and Piedmont , including in Pontboset , Ayas , Champdepraz , Trino in Gressoney-Saint-Jean , Barbania , Front Canavese , Pessinetto , Cantoira , Corio and Canale d'Alba . On November 30, 1903, he retired and stayed in the Sankt Jakob priory in Saint-Pierre in the Aosta Valley until 1908 . From 1908 he lived in Marius Thomasset's hospice in Villeneuve in the Aosta Valley and finally for a short time in Saint-Nicolas, where he died on October 7, 1910.
Franco-Provençal poet and linguist
Jean-Baptiste Cerlogne is the first known writer in the Aosta Valley dialect and a pioneer in dialectology. He wrote his first poem, apparently at the suggestion of the canon and cathedral archivist Édouard Bérard in Aosta, in 1855: L'Infan prodeggo is the first surviving poem in the language of the Aosta Valley.
In the following years, Cerlogne wrote dialect works, mainly poems, songs and calendar entries, at his various places of work. In 1898 his poem was published in memory of the Italian War of Independence 50 years earlier. During his time in Saint-Jacques d'Ayas he edited a dictionary and a grammar of the Valdostan language over several years . In 1909 he published the text Le patois valdôtain.
Honors
In Saint-Nicolas there is a memorial to the poet and the Cerlogne Museum at the René Willien Institute Center d'études francoprovençales , which has been holding the Concours Cerlogne for poetry, theater and music in Franco-Provençal Patois since 1963 .
Schools in Aosta and Saint-Pierre bear the name of the language pioneer.
Works
Linguistics
- Dzan pouro. 1892.
- Petite grammaire du dialecte valdôtain. 1893.
- Dictionnaire du dialecte valdôtain. 1908.
- Poésies en dialecte valdôtain.
- Dictionnaire de patois valdôtain précédé de la petite grammaire , Imprimerie Catholique, Aoste 1907.
- Le patois valdôtain - son origine littéraire et sa graphie. 1909.
Poems
- L'Infan prodeggo. 1855.
- La marenda a Tsesalet
- La Pastorala. 1861.
- Les petits chinois. 1868.
- Lo Tsemin de Fer. 1886 (about the construction of the railway in the Aosta Valley).
- Le s-ou et le dove comére. 1887.
- A do dzovenno epaou. 1887.
- Pastorala di Rei. 1888.
- Tsanson de Carnaval. 1893.
- Le maçon de Saint-Gra.
- La vie du petit ramoneur. 1894.
- Cinquantiémo anniverséro de 48.1898 .
- Le 22 juillet 1901 à Courmayeur. 1901.
- Le patois valdôtain. 1909.
- La fenna consolaye. 1910.
literature
- René Willien : Cerlogne. In Noutre Dzen Patoué. Aosta 1974.
- H. Armand, Alexis Bétemps , Pierre Vietti :, Le Musée Cerlogne et le Center d'études francoprovençales René Willien de Saint-Nicolas. Saint-Nicolas 1982.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cerlogne, Jean-Baptiste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Priest, poet and dialectologist from the Aosta Valley |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Nicolas (Aosta Valley) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 1910 |
| Place of death | Saint-Nicolas (Aosta Valley) |