Léon Zéliqzon
Léon Zéliqzon (born September 11, 1858 in Vantoux , † March 16, 1944 in Vandières ) was a French Romance scholar and dialectologist .
life and work
Zéliqzon (French for "Blessed Son") was a high school teacher in Metz and from 1888 an active member (later treasurer) of the Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de la Lorraine (SHAL). He was murdered in exile.
His dictionary of French dialects in the Moselle region is important.
A street in Metz bears his name.
Works
- Lorraine dialects , Metz 1889
- (with Gonzalve Thiriot) Textes patois recueillis en Lorraine , Metz 1912
- (Ed.) La famille ridicule. Comédie messine en vers patois , Metz
- Dictionnaire des patois romans de la Moselle , 3 vols., Strasbourg 1922–1924, Woippy 2002 (718 pages)
literature
- Jules Feller, [review], in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire , 2, 1923, pp. 517-520 ( http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rbph_0035- 0818_1923_num_2_3_6247_t1_0517_0000_2 )
- Roger Clément, Le professeur Léon Zéliqzon, in: Annuaire de la Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de la Lorraine 48, 1947, pp. 12-16
- Hans-Erich Keller, Walther von Wartburg and Robert Geuljans, Bibliography des dictionnaires patois galloromans 1550–1967 , Geneva 1969 (2.2.18.7)
Web links
- Literature by and about Léon Zéliqzon in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zéliqzon, Léon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romance studies and dialectologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vantoux |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1944 |
| Place of death | Vandières |