Jean François (historian)

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Jean François (born January 21, 1722 in Jehonville , † April 22, 1791 in Senones ) was a French Benedictine , historian and Romanist .

life and work

Dom Jean François, who came from the Bouillon area (Belgium) ( Walloon Region ), entered the Benedictine order in 1740 (Congregation of the Abbey of Saint-Vanne (Verdun) ). He worked in various monasteries in Eastern France, for example as a theology professor in the Hautvillers Abbey , and then from 1757 in the Saint Arnulf Abbey in Metz . His scientific work earned him membership in the Société germano-bénédictine (founded by Olivier Légipont in 1752 ) and the Académie royale de Metz (founded in 1757). The expensive printing of his books led to financial difficulties, which is why he was relieved of his position as prior.

Dom François published important works on the history of the Benedictine order as well as on the history of the city of Metz, as well as two dictionaries that are of interest for the old French and for the regional Lorraine and Walloon forms of the French language.

Works

Dictionaries

  • Vocabulaire austrasien , pour servir à l'intelligence des preuves de l'histoire de Metz, des loix et atours de la ville, des chartres, titres, actes et autres monumens du moyen-age, écrits en langue romane, tant dans le pays Messin que dans les provinces voisines, Metz 1773 (207 pages, including “Conjugaisons des verbes romançons” from p. 150)
  • Dictionnaire roman, walon, celtique et tudesque pour servir à l'intelligence des anciennes loix & contrats, des chartes, rescripts, titres, actes, diplomes & autres monuments, tant ecclésiastiques que civils & historiques, écrits en langue romance ou langue françoise ancienne, Bouillon 1777 (364 pages)

history

  • (with Dom Nicolas Tabouillot, 1734–1799) Histoire de Metz , 6 vols., Metz 1769–1790, Paris 1974
  • Bibliothèque générale des écrivains de l'Ordre de Saint Benoît , 4 vols., Bouillon 1777–1778, Louvain-Heverlé 1961 (Benedictine dictionary)
  • Journal 1760-1772. Appendice sur l'épiscopat de Monseigneur de Saint-Simon 1733-1760 , Metz 1913

literature

  • Dictionnaire de biographie française 14, 1979, pp. 1042-1044

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personal data
SURNAME François, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Benedictine, historian and Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Jehonville
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1791
Place of death Senones