Jean Gaulmier
Jean Gaulmier (born March 10, 1905 in Charenton-du-Cher , Département Cher , † November 11, 1997 in Paris ) was a French writer , orientalist , Romance scholar and literary scholar .
life and work
Gaulmier studied (after meeting Etienne Gilson and Louis Massignon ) Arabic at the Ecole des langues orientales and stayed in the Middle East from 1928 to 1951. First he was stationed as a soldier in Lebanon, then he worked as a high school teacher and inspector of French education in Syria (Hama, Damascus, Aleppo). During the Second World War he sided with de Gaulle. From 1945 to 1951 he taught at the Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut. He completed his habilitation in Paris in 1949 with the two theses L'idéologue Volney, 1757-1820. Contribution à l'histoire de l'orientalisme en France (Beyrouth 1951, Geneva / Paris 1980) and La zubda kachf al-mamālik de Khalil Az-Zahiri. Traduction inédite de Venture de Paradis avec une notice sur le traducteur (Beirut 1950) and became a professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1951 . From 1969 until his retirement in 1975 he taught at the Sorbonne .
Gaulmier edited works by Arthur de Gobineau , a. a. in three volumes of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Paris 1982–1987), also by Ernest Renan .
Other works
Fiction
- Terroir, Paris 1931, 1984 (novel)
- Matricule Huit, Paris 1932, 1985 (novel)
- Combattant malgré eux, Paris / Alger 1945 (poetry)
- Hélène et la solitude, Paris 1986 (novel)
Literary studies
- Charles de Gaulle, écrivain, Paris / Alger 1945
- Gérard de Nerval et les Filles du Feu, Paris 1956
- Un grand témoin de la Révolution et de l'Empire: Volney, Paris 1959
- L'univers de Marcel Jouhandeau, Paris 1959
- (Ed.) Volney, Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie, Paris / Den Haag 1959
- Specter de Gobineau, Paris 1965
- Michelet, Paris 1968 (Les Ecrivains devant Dieu)
- Gobineau et sa fortune littéraire, Saint-Médard en Jalles 1971
literature
- Autour du romantisme. De Volney à J.-P. Sartre. Mélanges offerts à M. le Prof. Jean Gaulmier, Paris 1977 (with list of publications)
- Jean Gaulmier. Un orientaliste en Syrie. Recueil des textes publiés dans le "Bulletin des études orientales", 1929–1972, Damascus 2006
- Dictionnaire de la France libre, ed. by François Broche, Georges Caïtucoli and Jean-François Muracciole, Paris 2010 sv
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Gaulmier in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaulmier, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romanist, Orientalist and literary historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charenton-du-Cher , Cher department |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1997 |
| Place of death | Paris |