Joseph Hanse
Joseph Hanse (born October 5, 1902 in Floreffe , † November 7, 1992 in Watermael-Boitsfort ) was a Belgian Romance studies , literary scholar and grammarian.
life and work
Hanse received his doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven in 1925 on Charles de Coster (Leuven 1928; Brussels 1990 with a foreword by Raymond Trousson) and was a high school teacher. From 1945 to 1973 he taught at his mother university. From 1956 he was a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises. From its founding in 1968 to 1991 he was chairman of the Conseil international de la langue française, which represents the interests of the entire Francophonie. Hanse received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bologna (1989) and Paris XII Val de Marne (1990). He is an honorary citizen of the city of Watermael-Boitsfort.
His name is primarily associated with the Nouveau Dictionnaire des difficultés du français moderne , which he published in the first edition in 1949 (Paris / Brussels, 759 pages ud T. Dictionnaire des difficultés grammaticales et lexicologiques ) and in 1983 in a greatly expanded edition (Paris, 1014 pages ) and which became a standard work (Paris 1987, 1031 pages, 3rd posthumous edition together with Daniel Blampain, Louvain-la-Neuve 1994, 983 pages, 4th edition, 2000, 649 pages, 5th edition, 2005, book and CD).
Other works
- (Ed. Together with Gustave Charlier) Histoire illustrée des lettres françaises de Belgique, Brussels 1958
- (Ed.) Charles De Coster, La Légende et les aventures héroïques, joyeuses et glorieuses d'Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au pays de Flandres et ailleurs. Édition définitive, Brussels 1959, 2nd edition 1966
- (Ed.) Maurice Maeterlinck, Poésies complètes. Serres chaudes. Quinze chansons. New chansons de la trentaine. Treize chansons de l'âge mûr. Édition définitive, Brussels 1965
- (together with Albert Doppagne and Hélène Bourgeois-Gielen) Chasse aux belgicismes, Brussels 1971, Nouvelle chasse aux belgismes, Brussels 1974
- (together with Albert Doppagne, André Goosse , Maurice Grevisse , Jacques Pohl and Léon Warnant ) Régionalismes lexicaux de Belgique. Premier inventaire, Brussels 1979
- Orthographe et grammaire. Politique nouvelle, Paris 1980
- (Ed.) Charles De Coster, Légendes flamandes; édition critique, Brussels 1990
- Naissance d'une littérature [on De Coster, Verhaeren, Maeterlinck], Brussels 1992
- (together with Michèle Lenoble-Pinson, Willy Bal, Albert Doppagne, André Goosse , Jacques Pohl and Léon Warnant ) Belgicismes. Inventaire des particularités lexicales du français de Belgique, Louvain-La-Neuve 1994
literature
- Etudes de littérature française de Belgique offertes à Joseph Hanse pour son 75e anniversaire, ed. by Michel Otten, with the assistance of Roland Beyen and Pierre Yerles [preface by Marcel Thiry], Brussels 1978
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Hanse in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Joseph Hanse. Retrieved September 12, 2019 (French).
- Joseph Hanse (with picture). Retrieved September 12, 2019 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hanse, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian Romance studies, literary scholar and grammarian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Floreffe |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1992 |
| Place of death | Watermael-Boitsfort |