Jean-François Bladé
Jean François Marie Zéphyrin Bladé , or Jean-François Bladé (born November 15, 1827 in Lectoure , † June 30, 1900 in Paris ) was a French ethnologist and writer .
Life
The son of the notary Joseph-Marie Bladé and Adèle-Marie Liaubon, Jean François Marie Zéphyrin Bladé was born on November 15, 1827 in the city of Lectoure . The young Bladé grew up in an environment in which he became familiar with the southern French fairy tales of Gascony through his paternal grandmother, Marie de Lacaze from Sainte Radegonde and his maternal grandmother Marie Couture from Bordeaux . At the same time, these childhood experiences complemented the fairy tales of farm workers and maids. In the introduction to the first collection of fairy tales, Blade remembers one narrator in particular: Father Cazaux : - This man only passed on half of what he knew and always told his fairy tales in the great outdoors . From this mysterious storyteller, Bladé heard, among many others, the fairy tale of the green . Bladé spent his childhood and youth in Lectoure. After the usual scholastic career and the graduating studied Blade after 1850 at the Sorbonne in Paris jurisprudence . But Bladé's linguistic talent also soon became a celebrity in Parisian coffee houses and student pubs: Here, the lean, tall Gascogner performed folk songs and rough cocks to the delight of everyone. It was here that Bladé met Charles Baudelaire . And it was here that he met Anatole France , who put a friendly memorial to Bladé in his 1901 novel Monsieur Bergeret à Paris . In 1855 Bladé returned to Lectoure and settled there as a lawyer . From 1866 he also worked here as a deputy judge . At this time, Bladé began to devote himself to his literary interests again. He participated in local and folklore research. In 1867, Bladé published the first results of his folklore collections in magazines , calendars and reading books . This resulted in correspondence with scholars such as Reinhold Köhler and Gaston Paris . The first major publication appeared in three volumes under the title Poésies populaires de la Gascogne . This was followed in 1886 by the famous three-volume collection of fairy tales, Contes populaires de la Gascogne . Bladé supplemented his folklore studies with scientific research: Among other things, he wrote a dissertation on the heroic songs of the Basques and in 1869 published a study on the origins of the Basques ( "Etude sur l'origine des basques" ). On June 30, 1900, at the age of seventy-three, the poet and fairy tale collector died unexpectedly. His great-niece dedicated a biography to him, which appeared under the fictional title Jean Balde .
Works
literature
- Maria Anna Steinbauer, The fairy tale from the folk tale. Jean-François Bladé and the Contes populaires de la Gascogne. Problems of a collection of fairy tales from the 19th century , Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1988 (European university publications. Series 13. Vol. 126)
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-François Bladé in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ This is available in German translation - largely unabridged - in the three volumes: 1. The man in all colors , 2. The David chariot and 3. Of God and his worlds - in the translation by Konrad Sandkühler
- ↑ The biographical data on Bladè are largely taken from the afterword by Konrad Sandkühler to the volume Von Gott und seine Welten .
- ↑ This above list of fairy tales in French Fairy Tales Volume II - from recent collections; translated by Ernst Tegethoff; ed. by Friedrich von der Leyen and Paul Zaunert; Eugen Diederichs publishing house; Jena, 1923
- ↑ These fairy tales in the first volume of the southern French folk tales / Contes populaires de la Gascogne: The man in all colors - collected by Jean-François Bladé, translated by Konrad Sandkühler; Free Spiritual Life Verlag Stuttgart, 1954 - the volume also contains the three aforementioned Bladé fairy tales from the Tegethoff collection
- ↑ These fairy tales in the second volume of the folk tales from the south of France / Contes populaires de la Gascogne: The David Carriage - collected by Jean-François Bladé, translated by Konrad Sandkühler; Free Spiritual Life Publishing House Stuttgart, 1972 ISBN 3-7725-0495-7 ; the volume also contains some legends from Gascony
- ↑ These fairy tales in the third volume of the southern French folk tales / Contes populaires de la Gascogne: From God and his worlds - collected by Jean-François Bladé, translated by Konrad Sandkühler; Urachhaus publishing house; Stuttgart, 2000 ISBN 3-8251-7320-8 ; The volume also contains legends, rascals, fables and joke poems from Gascony
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bladé, Jean-François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bladé, Jean François Marie Zéphyrin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French ethnologist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lectoure |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1900 |
| Place of death | Paris |