Lewis Charles Harmer
Lewis Charles Harmer (born June 22, 1902 in Sittingbourne , † March 1975 ) was a British Romance studies and linguist.
life and work
Harmer was a student at Kent College in Canterbury . He studied at King's College London and graduated in English and French in 1925. In 1931 he graduated first class from Cambridge. Harmer occupied the Drapers Chair of French at Cambridge University from 1951 to 1967 .
Other works
- (Ed.) Beowulf. Abridged and simplified, Paris 1932
- (Ed.) Charles Kingsley, Theseus (The Heroes). Abridged and simplified, Paris 1932
- (with Frederick John Norton ) A manual of modern Spanish, London 1935, 1957, 1969, 1973
- (Editor) James Gauchez Anderson, Le mot juste. A dictionary of English and French homonyms, London / New York 1938
- (with Patrice Edouard Charvet) Words with the Yewberrys. Prose passages for French vocabulary building, London 1949
- (Ed.) Twentieth-Century French Reader, London 1953
- The French Language today. Its characteristics and tendencies, London 1954
- (Ed. With John Claud Trewinard Oates) Vocabulary in French and English. A facsimile of Caxton's edition, c. 1480. [Adapted from the “Livre des mestiers” of Bruges], Cambridge 1964
- Uncertainties in French grammar, ed. by Peter Rickard and Thomas George Sugden Combe, Cambridge 1979.
literature
- The French language. Studies presented to Lewis Charles Harmer, ed. by Thomas George Sugden Combe and Peter Rickard , London 1970
- [Obituary in:] French Studies 29, 1975, pp. 373-374
Web links
- Literature by and about Lewis Charles Harmer in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Literature by and about Lewis Charles Harmer in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harmer, Lewis Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harmer, LC |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Romance studies and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sittingbourne |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1975 |