Jean Janitza

Jean Janitza (born April 17, 1940 in Sarrebourg ; † July 11, 2002 in L'Haÿ-les-Roses ) was a French German scholar, linguist and didactic specialist.

life and work

Janitza attended high school in Metz. From 1959 to 1964 he belonged to the École normal supérieure de Cachan, at the same time he studied German at the Sorbonne. From 1964 to 1966 he taught as Agrégé in Les Andelys and Bourges. From 1966 to 1974 he was an assistant at the Sorbonne and worked with Jean Fourquet , but was also influenced by Pierre Bertaux and Jean-Marie Zemb . He completed his Thèse de 3e Cycle (doctorate) on Structures lexicales en Lorraine germanophone in 1972 with Marthe Philipp in Nancy. He defended the Thèse de doctorat d'Etat Programmation didactique de la grammaire allemande , written under the direction of Jean-Marie Zemb, at the Sorbonne in 1975 (habilitation). In the same year he was appointed full professor for German studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III. From 1991 to 2001 he was director of the Institut Universitaire pour la Formation des Maîtres (IUFM) Paris.

Works

• (together with Marthe Philipp and Guy Levieuge) Dialectologie structurale en Moselle germanophone , Nancy 1972
• Enseignement Assisté par Ordinateur des Langues Etrangères. Théories, Pratiques, Perspectives , Paris 1985
• Pratique de l'allemand de A à Z , Paris 1986
• (Ed. Together with Eugène Faucher and Frédéric Hartweg) Sens et être. Mélanges en l'honneur de Jean-Marie Zemb , Nancy 1989
• Vocabulaire allemand , Paris 1999

literature

• Jean Janitza, Babel en éducation. Linguistique allemande et didactique des langues , ed. by Monique Travers and Bernard Viselthier, Paris 2003 [memorial with picture and biography]