Jehan Lagadeuc

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Jehan Lagadeuc (* in the 15th century in the Manoir de Mézédern near Plougonven ; † in the 15th century) was a Breton philologist, Romance scholar , Celtologist and lexicographer.

life and work

Lagadeuc was a priest in the Diocese of Tréguier . Knowing about the Catholicon of Johannes Balbi of Genoa (an alphabetically arranged Latin dictionary), Lagadeuc wrote a trilingual Breton- French-Latin dictionary in 1464 (published 1499) and called it Catholicon . It is one of the very first alphabetic dictionaries of a modern language, but was mainly used for learning Latin (and secondarily for learning French) by Breton priests. The Catholicon appeared in three editions and has been reprinted several times until recently.

Manuscript and editions of the Catholicon

  • Catholicon en troys langaiges (1464), Paris BN: lat. 7656 (handwriting)
  • Catholicon en troys langaiges Scavoir est breton franczoys et latin selon lordre de la bcd etc., Trégiuer 1499 (publisher: Jean Calvez)
    • Le Catholicon de Jehan Lagadeuc. Dictionnaire breton, français et latin , ed. by René François Le Men, Lorient 1867
    • Le catholicon. Dictionnaire breton-latin-français , ed. by Christian Joseph Guyonvarc'h, Rennes 1975, Brest 2005
    • Le Catholicon armoricain , ed. by Jean Feutren, Mayenne 1977
  • Dictionarius britonum continens tria ydiomata: videlicet Britannicum secundum ordinem litterarum alphabeti: Gallicum et Latinum superaddita , without place, without year (publisher: Johen Corre)
  • Catholicon artificialis dictionarius triphariam partibus: Britonnice scilicet Gallice et Latine , Paris 1521 (publisher: Yuone Quilleuere)

literature

  • Pierre Trépos, Le Catholicon de Jean Lagadeuc. Pour son cinquième centenaire, in: Annales de Bretagne 71, 1964, pp. 501-552
  • Margarete Lindemann, The French dictionaries from their beginnings to 1600. Origin and typological description , Tübingen 1994 (here: pp. 278–284)
  • Gwennole Le Menn , Le vocabulaire breton du "Catholicon", 1499. Le premier dictionnaire breton imprimé breton-français-latin, de Jehan Lagadeuc , Saint-Brieuc 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Lagadeuc, Jehan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lagadeuc, Jean; Lagadec, Jehan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Breton philologist, Romance scholar, Celtologist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Plougonven
DATE OF DEATH 15th century