Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (born June 6, 1697 in Auxerre , † March 1, 1781 ) was a French historian, philologist and antiquarian who was a member of the Académie française in 1758 .
Life
La Curne, a favorite of the queen and the nobility , worked as a historian and philologist and became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres as early as 1724 . On May 22, 1758 he was elected to succeed Louis de Boissy as a member of the Académie française and took the sixth armchair (armchair 6) there.
His most important publications include Mémoires sur l'ancienne chevalerie (1753), Dictionnaire des antiquités françaises and his best-known work Glossaire de l'ancienne langue française .
La Curne's work is one of the sources of the melodrama The Dog of Aubry by René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt .
literature
- Lionel Gossman, Medievalism and the Ideologies of the Enlightenment: The World and Work of La Curne de Sainte-Palaye , Baltimore 1968
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guilbert de Pixérécourt: Théâtre choisi , Paris, Tresse 1842, vol. 3, p. 119
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Jean-Baptiste de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian, philogist and antiquarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1697 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auxerre |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1781 |