Jules Ronjat
Jules Ronjat (* 1864 in Vienne ; † January 19, 1925 in Geneva ) was a French linguist, Romanist and Provençalist .
life and work
Jules-Antoine Ronjat studied law and was a lawyer in Paris and Vienne. In private he did research in Provençal studies, in 1902 at the suggestion of his friends Maurice Grammont and Pierre Devoluy (1862–1932) he was secretary of Félibrige and in 1909 was accepted into the Société de linguistique de Paris. He completed his habilitation with the two theses Essai de syntaxe des parlers provençaux modern (Mâcon 1913) and Le développement du langage observé chez un enfant bilingue (Paris 1913), lectured briefly in Lyon and moved to Geneva in 1914, where he worked with Charles Bally was in contact and at his instigation became a private lecturer at the university in 1916. He was one of the proofreaders of theCours de linguistique générale by Ferdinand de Saussure , edited by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye . At the University of Geneva he held a. a. Lectures on the grammar of speaking French.
Ronjat's posthumously published Grammaire istorique des parlers provençaux modern in 4 volumes (Montpellier 1930–1941, 2 volumes, Geneva / Marseille 1980) is considered to be one of the most important works of Provencal studies. (The spelling of the word historique corresponds to the author's orthographic reform concept.)
Ronjats Thèse complémentaire dealt with the linguistic development of his son, who grew up bilingual in German and French (Ronjat's wife was German).
Other works
- Sainte Estelle. Patroness des Félibres, Périgueux 1907
- L'Ourtougràfi Prouvençalo, pichot tratat à l'usage di Prouvençau, Avignon 1908, Toulon 1937, 1957, 1975
- Supplément établi d'après les notes de Jules Ronjat, in: Frédéric Mistral, Lou Trésor dou Félibrige ou Dictionnaire provençal-français, Raphèle-lès-Arles 1979, vol. 2, pp. 1175–1178
literature
- Mario Roques in: Romania 51, 1925, pp. 315-316
- Liliane Jagueneau / Danielle Renault, Index linguistique et geographique de la "Grammaire istorique des parlers provençaux modern" de Jules Ronjat, Poitiers 1981
- Igord de Rufford: Un Viennois oublié. Jules Ronjat, in: L'Indépendant du Viennois 88 (July 16, 1994)
- Anne-Marguerite Fryba-Reber / Jean-Pierre Chambon: Lettres et fragments inédits de Jules Ronjat adressés à Charles Bally (1912–1918), in: Cahiers Ferdinand de Saussure 49, 1995–1996, pp. 9–63
Web links
- Literature by and about Jules Ronjat in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ronjat, Jules |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ronjat, Jules Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French linguist, Romanist and Provençalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienne (Isere) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1925 |
| Place of death | Geneva |