Jean-François Féraud
Jean-François Féraud (born April 17, 1725 in Marseille , † February 8, 1807 ibid) was a French Romance philologist and lexicographer .
life and work
Féraud was born the son of the surgeon François Féraud and his wife Claire, née Beaumontwar. As a Jesuit , he stayed in Besançon for four years , worked as an educator in Provence and after the dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1763 as a secular clergyman. The French Revolution forced him into exile in Nice and Ferrara . He returned in 1795 or 1798.
In 1756 he published together with Esprit Pezenas (1692–1776) a French translation of the English lexicon by Thomas Dyche († 1733), then a Dictionnaire grammatical de la langue française , 2 vols. (Avignon / Paris 1761/1768/1772/1786 / 1788) and, when he was over sixty, his main work, the three-volume Dictionnaire critique de la langue française (Marseille 1787–1788, Tübingen 1994). To this end, supplements were found by Pierre Larthomas in 1963 and published in 1987/1988.
Other works
- Nouveau dictionnaire universel des arts et des sciences, français, latin et anglais contenant la signification des mots de ces trois langues et des termes propres de chaque état et profession. Avec l'explication de tout ce que renferment les arts et les sciences traduit de l'anglais de Thomas Dyche, 2 vols., Avignon 1756
- Suplément du Dictionaire critique de la langue française, 3 vols., Paris 1987–1988
literature
- Pierre Larthomas: Le Supplément du Dictionnaire critique de Féraud, in: Le Français Moderne , 33, 1965, pp. 241–55.
- Charles Rostaing (1904–1999): Le Dictionnaire provençal de l'Abbé Féraud (XVIIIe siècle), in: Revue de linguistique romane 159-160, 1976, pp. 321-348.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Féraud, Jean-François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Féraud, abbé |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Jesuit, educator and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1725 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1807 |
| Place of death | Marseille |