Jean Boutière

Jean Boutière (* 1. November 1898 in Mallemort , † 29. January 1967 ) was a French linguist , Provenzalist and Rumänist .

life and work

Boutière attended high school in Marseille and studied at the universities of Aix-en-Provence and Toulouse. In 1920 he went to Oradea University as a lecturer . He was then a high school teacher in Rouen . He completed his habilitation in 1930 with Mario Roques with the two theses La vie et l'oeuvre de Ion Creangă, 1837-1889 (Paris 1930, Romanian Iași 1976) and Les poésies du troubadour Peire Bremon Ricas Novas (Paris 1930, New York 1971) and became the successor of Mario Roques at the Sorbonne in 1937 head of the department for Romanian founded by Roques. From 1948 until his death he was head of the Center d'enseignement et de recherche d'oc (CEROC) (also at the Sorbonne). From 1958 Boutière was a corresponding member of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans . A street in Arles was named after him.

Other works

• Les poésies du troubadour Albertet, in: Studi medievali 10, 1937 (129 pages)
• (Ed. With Alexander Herman Schutz) Biographies des troubadours. Textes provençaux des XIIIe et XIVe siècles, Toulouse / Paris 1950, 1964, 1973
• (Ed.) Nouvelles roumaines, Paris 1962
• (Ed.) Frédéric Mistral, Les Iles d'or, 2 vols., Paris 1970
• (Ed.) Correspondance de Frédéric Mistral avec Paul Meyer et Gaston Paris , Paris 1978 (posthumously, supervised by Hedwige Boutière)

literature

• Mélanges de philologie romane dédiés à la mémoire de Jean Boutière (1899–1967), édités par Irénée Cluzel et François Pirot, 2 vols., Liège 1971

Web links

• GND 123289327 (wrongly booked as Belgian)