Laurent Chiflet

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Laurent Chiflet (born November 1598 in Besançon ; † July 8, 1658 in Antwerp ) was a Jesuit and grammarian .

life and work

Chiflet (also Chifflet or Chifletius) belonged to a Burgundian humanist family . In addition to numerous edification writings, he wrote a grammar of French ( published posthumously in 1659 ) , which was used in the Jesuit grammar schools and was published until the 18th century.

Works

  • Essay d'une parfaite grammaire de la langue françoise , Antwerp 1659, Geneva 1973 (247 pages)

literature

  • Jacques Bourquin, Galerie des linguistes franc-comtois , Besançon 2003 (with picture)
  • Simone Delesalle, Le statut du lexique dans la Grammaire de Laurent Chiflet et dans la Méthode de Claude Irson: 1656–1660, in: Histoire Épistémologie Langage 28, 2006, pp. 37–52
  • Autour of the cipher. Aux origines de l'érudition en Franche-Comté , ed. by Laurence Delobette and Paul Delsalle, Besançon 2007 (with family tree)

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