Jules Cornu

Jules Cornu (born February 24, 1849 in Villars-Mendraz , † November 27, 1919 in Leoben ) was a Swiss Romance philologist .

life and work

Cornu studied with Edmund Stengel in Basel and with Gaston Paris in Paris . He received his doctorate in Basel in 1874 with a thesis on the dialects of the Pays-d'Enhaut and then taught at the University of Basel until 1877 (from 1876 as Associate Professor of Romance Philology), where he had Jules Gilliéron, Rudolf Thurneysen and Carlo Salviani as students . From 1877 to 1901 he was the successor of Wendelin Foerster full professor for Romance philology at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague , from 1901 to 1911 at the University of Graz . Cornu, who himself spoke the dialect, was a member of the philological commission of the Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande .

Jules Cornu was the father of the mineralogist Felix Cornu .

Works

• Chants et contes populaires de la Gruyère , in: Romania 4, 1875, reprinted New York 1966
• Phonologie du Bagnard , in: Romania 6, 1877
• Cancioneiro general. Phonologie syntactique et mesure des mots , in: Romania 12, 1883
• The Portuguese language , in: Gustav Gröber: Grundriss der Romansische Philologie . Vol. 1, Strasbourg 1888, pp. 715-803, 2nd edition under the title Grammar of the Portuguese Language , Strasbourg 1906, pp. 916-1037
• Contributions to the Latin metric , Vienna 1908

literature

• Matthias Friedwagner: Jules Cornu 1849-1919. In memory and appreciation , in: Archive for the Study of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures 142, 1921, pp. 209–216
• Anne-Marguerite Fryba-Reber: Les romanistes suisses et Gaston Paris , in: Le Moyen Age de Gaston Paris , ed. by Michel Zink, Paris 2004, pp. 211–242
• Anne-Marguerite Fryba-Reber: De Gustav Gröber à Arthur Piaget (1872–1895). L'institutionnalisation de la philologie romane en Suisse , in: Portraits de médiévistes suisses (1850–2000). Une profession au fil du temps , ed. by Ursula Bähler and Richard Trachsler with Larissa Birrer, Geneva 2009, pp. 33–60 (here: pp. 38–40)

Web links

• Paola Crivelli: Cornu, Jules. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .