Joseph Roumanille

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Joseph Roumanille

Joseph Roumanille (born August 8, 1818 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence , † May 24, 1891 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence) was a French author, bookseller, publisher, Romanist and Provençalist , founding member of Félibrige .

life and work

Roumanille attended grammar school in Tarascon and was there (after renouncing a priestly career) from 1836 to 1839 a notary's assistant. In 1836 he came into contact with the Provencal author Joseph Desanat (1796–1873, from Tarascon) and in 1841 was a founding member of his magazine Lou Boui-Abaisso , which wrote its messages in Provencal verse. Roumanille then worked as a teacher in boarding schools, in Nyons , and later as a tutor in Avignon . There he met the 14-year-old student Frédéric Mistral in 1845 at the age of 26 , an encounter that nine years later on May 21, 1854 would lead to the foundation of Félibrige.

Roumanille published the first anthology of the New Provençal poets in 1852 ( Li Prouvençalo ) and in the same year organized the Arles Congress with Jean-Baptiste Gaut (1819-1891), which brought the poets together for the first time. From 1855 Roumanille and Mistral published the yearbook L'Armana prouvençau (The Provençal Almanac), became self-employed as a bookseller and publisher in 1856 (after proofreading in the printing works of François Seguin) and in 1859 published Mistral's epic Mirèio , as well as works in French and Provencal Language. From 1862 he was secretary of Félibrige, now constituted as an association, in 1876 he became majoral (in the again reorganized Félibrige), and in 1888 (succeeding Mistral) its second capoulié (president). Roumanille was the most active organizer among the early members of the Félibrige.

Roumanille published two narrow volumes of poetry, but was primarily a narrator. He is considered to be the founder of modern Provencal prose.

Roumanille was the brother-in-law of the writer Félix Gras (1844–1901).

Works (selection)

  • Li Margarideto , Paris 1847 (poetry)
  • Li Sounjarello , Avignon 1852 (poetry)
  • (Ed.) Li Prouvençalo (Les Provençales), Avignon 1852 (poetry; foreword by Saint-René Taillandier ; with glossary)
  • La part dah Bon Diéu , Avignon 1853 (therein: Dissertation sur l'orthographe provençale )
  • Lis oubreto 1835–1859 , Avignoun 1860 (preface by Jean Reboul )
  • Lis oubreto en proso , Avignoun 1864
  • Lis oubreto en vers , Avignon 1864 (preface by Armand de Pontmartin 1811–1890), 1892; ed. by Paul Mariéton (1862–1911), 1903
  • Li Conte Prouvençau , Avignon 1884, 1889, 1908; Contes Provençaux , Paris 1911 (bilingual); 6th edition, Paris / Avignon 1927 (preface by Frédéric Charpin 1883–1914); Raphèle-lès-Arles 1978, Nîmes 2000, Mounenh 2006 (Italian: Racconti provenzali , Milan 1913, Lanciano 1915, 1927; Catalan: Martorell 2010)

literature

  • Joseph Roumanille, Lettres adressées à Victor Duret , in: Le centenaire de Diez , ed. by Eugène Ritter , Geneva 1894, pp. 23–116 (Bulletin de l'Institut genevois 33)
  • Pierre Devoluy , Mistral et la rédemption d'une langue , Paris 1941
  • René Dumas , Les années de formation de Joseph Roumanille 1818–1848 , Montpellier 1970 (Thèse Paris 1968)
  • Correspondance Mistral - Roumanille , Raphèle-lès-Arles 1981

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personal data
SURNAME Roumanille, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author, bookseller, publisher, Romanist and Provençalist, founding member of Félibrige
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1891
Place of death Saint-Rémy-de-Provence