Joseph Bédier

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Joseph Bédier

Charles Marie Joseph Bédier (born January 28, 1864 in Paris , † August 29, 1938 in Le Grand-Serre ) was a French Romanist .

Bédier taught medieval French literature at various universities (1889–1891 University of Friborg (Switzerland) , around 1903 Collège de France in Paris). In his best-known work Les légendes épiques he explains the origins of the heroic epics with the locations of the pilgrimage routes (»pilgrimage route theory«).

From 1920 he was a member of the Académie française . In 1929 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1937 he was accepted into the American Philosophical Society .

Works

  • Le lai de l'ombre (1890)
  • Le fabliau de Richeut (1891)
  • Les fabliaux, études de littérature populaire et d'histoire littéraire du Moyen Âge (1893)
  • De Nicolao Museto (gallice Colin Muset), francogallico carminum scriptore (1893)
  • Le roman de Tristan et Iseut (1900)
  • Le roman de Tristan by Thomas (2 volumes, 1902–1905)
  • Études critiques (1903)
  • Les deux poèmes de la folie Tristan (1907)
  • Legends épiques, recherches on the formation of the chansons de geste (1908–1913)
  • Les chansons de croisade (1909)
  • Les chansons de Colin Muset (1912)
  • Les crimes allemands d'après les témoignages allemands (1915)
  • Comment l'Allemagne essaie de justifier ses crimes? (1915)
  • Joseph Bédier and Paul Hazard: Histoire de la littérature francaise . 2 vol. (1923/24)
  • L'effort français (1919)
  • La chanson de Roland (critical edition, 1920)
  • La chanson de Roland (based on the Oxford manuscript, 1922)
  • Commentaires sur la chanson de Roland (1927)

literature

  • Alain Corbellari, Joseph Bédier écrivain et philologue , Geneva 1997
  • Michelle R. Warren, “Au Commencement était l'île”: The Colonial Formation of Joseph Bédier's Chanson de Roland , in Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages: Translating Cultures , edited by Ananya Jahanara Kabir and Deanne Williams, Cambridge University Press, 2005 , pp. 205-226.
  • Sur les traces de Joseph Bédier , you. par Alain Corbellari et Ursula Bähler, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-95477-098-4 . ( Online )

Web links

Commons : Joseph Bédier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member History: Joseph Bédier. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bédier, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bédier, Charles Marie Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1938
Place of death Le Grand-Serre