Julia Bastin

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Julia Bastin (born June 16, 1888 in Liège ; † October 26, 1968 in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe ) was a Belgian Romance scholar , medievalist and translator.

Life

Julia Bastin spent the years 1908–1912 in the Netherlands and was then a high school teacher in Belgium. During the World War she was in London and studied Romance philology and Medieval studies at Bedford College for Women. From 1920 to 1931 she attended the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. In 1931 she was appointed to the Université libre de Bruxelles , first as a Chargée de cours, from 1934 to 1958 as a full professor. From 1945 she belonged (as the first woman) to the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique . In 1961 she was awarded the Prix Albert Counson .

Works

  • (Translator) Aldous Huxley , Jaune de Crome, Paris 1928
  • (Ed.) Recueil général des Isopets, 2 vol., Paris 1929–1930
  • (Translator) Johan Huizinga , Le déclin du Moyen Âge, Paris 1932, 1948, 1967; from 1975 udT L'Automne du Moyen âge, 1980, 1989, 1998, 2002
  • (Translator) Aldous Huxley, Marina di Vezza, Paris 1938, 1946, 1962, 1978
  • Froissart. Chroniqueur, romancier et poète, Bruxelles 1942, 1948
  • Les Mémoires de Philippe de Commynes, Brussels 1944
  • (Ed. With Edmond Faral) Rutebeuf, Onze Poèmes concernant la Croisade, Paris 1946
  • (Ed. With Edmond Faral) Oeuvres complètes de Rutebeuf, 2 vols., Paris 1959–1960 (Prix Albert Counson), 1969, 1977–1985

literature

  • Pierre Ruelle in: Nouvelle Biographie Nationale 2, pp. 23-25 ​​(with literature)
  • Dictionnaire des femmes belges. XIXe et XXe siècles, ed. by Éliane Gubin u. a., Brussels 2006 sv (pp. 38–39)

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personal data
SURNAME Bastin, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian romanist, medievalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1968
Place of death Berchem-Sainte-Agathe