Jules Feller

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Jules Feller

Jules Feller (born November 4, 1859 in Roubaix , † April 29, 1940 in Verviers ) was a Belgian Romance philologist , Wallonist and dialectologist.

life and work

Feller was a high school teacher in Verviers until his retirement in 1919 . During this time he researched Walloon dialectology, made a contribution to the standardization of Walloon orthography, worked with Auguste Doutrepont and Jean Haust on the project of a Dictionnaire général de la langue wallonne , which turned out to be impracticable, and submitted with the same colleagues 1906 published the Bulletin du Dictionnaire général de la langue wallonne . In 1920 he was appointed to the newly founded Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique and at the same time received a professorship for Walloon literary history at the University of Liège , which he held until 1930.

Works

  • Le patois gaumet (Dialects du Luxembourg meridional). I, Phonètique du gaumet et du wallon comparés, Liège 1897
  • Essai d'orthographe wallonne, Liège 1900
  • Règles d'orthographe wallonne adoptées par la Société liégeoise de littérature wallonne, 2nd edition, Liège 1905
  • Notes de philologie wallone, Liège 1912 (with list of publications)
  • (Ed.) Oeuvres lyriques du poète wallon Martin Lejeune, Liège 1923
  • Traité de versification wallonne, Liège 1928
  • (Ed. With Jean Wisimus) Anthologie des poètes wallons verviétois, Verviers 1928
  • Français et dialectes chez les auteurs belges du moyen âge, Tongeren 1931
  • Le Bethléem verviétois. Une survivance d'ancien théâtre religieux de marionnettes, 3rd edition, Verviers 1931
  • Toponymie de la commune de Jalhay, Liège 1936

literature

  • Maurice Piron in: Bulletin de la Commission Royale de Toponymie et Dialectologie 18, 1944, pp. 25-41
  • Émile Fairon in: Bulletins de la Société verviétoise d'Archéologie et d'Histoire 33, 1942-1946, pp. 64-71

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personal data
SURNAME Feller, Jules
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Romance studies and dialectologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Roubaix
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1940
Place of death Verviers