Jean Passy
Jean Passy (born August 12, 1866 - April 19, 1898 ) was a French librarian , archivist , Romance scholar and dialectologist .
life and work
Jean Passy was the younger brother of the romanist Paul Passy . He studied in Paris at the École des Chartes and the Ecole pratique des hautes études and received his doctorate in 1892 with the work L'origine des Ossalois (edited by Paul Passy, Paris 1904). Passy worked as a librarian in Toulon (1891) and at the Chamber of Commerce in Paris (1893), as well as an archivist in the Basses-Pyrénées department (now the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department ). In 1895 he retired due to illness.
Other works
- Comment nous unir? De la Nécessité pour les chrétiens de s'unir afin d'économiser leurs forces morales et matérielles en vue d'une action plus efficace. Rapport présenté aux Conférences nationales des Unions de France de 1895 , Paris 1895
- (with Adolf Rambeau) Chrestomathie française, morceaux choisis de prose et de poésie, avec prononciation figurée à l'usage des étrangers , Paris 1897, 5th edition, ed. by Paul Passy , Paris / Leipzig 1926 (English: A French reader. Based upon Passy-Rambeau's Chrestomathie française. Arranged, with notes and vocabulary , New York 1905)
literature
- Charles Mortet, [obituary] in: Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des chartes 59, 1898, pp. 405-407
- Paul Passy, [obituary] in: Le Maître Phonétique 13, 1898, pp. 67-72
- Adolf Rambeau, [Obituary] in: Die Neueren Sprachen 6, 1898, pp. 460–462
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Passy in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Passy, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Passy, Jean Bénigne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French librarian, archivist, Romance scholar and dialectologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1866 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1898 |