Louis Alibert

Louis Alibert

Louis Alibert (born October 12, 1884 in Bram , Aude , † April 16, 1959 in Montpellier ) was a French Romanist and Occitanist .

life and work

Alibert was a pharmacist in Montréal d'Aude from 1912 to 1942 , but had also studied Provençal studies with Joseph Anglade . After participating in the First World War and being wounded, he joined the Action française and the Félibrige and made significant contributions to the language description and language planning of Occitan and Languedocian . He hoped that Pétain's Vichy regime would significantly enhance and promote the Occitan language and culture. After the liberation of France, he was sentenced to five years in prison with the loss of public honorary rights for life.

Works

• Le lengadoucian literari, Toulouse 1923
• Gramatica Occitana segon los parlars lengadocians, 2 vols., Toulouse 1935–1937 (printed in Barcelona); 2nd edition in one volume, Montpellier 1976, 2000 (contains the chapters: graphics, phonetics, morphology, syntax, word formation, orthography dictionary)
• (Ed. With René Nelli ) Les Troubadours de l'Aude, in: Pyrénées 2, 1941, pp. 116-210
• (with René Nelli) VII troubadours des pays d'Aude: Guillem de Durfort, Guillem Fabre, Bernat Alanhan, Berengier de Poivert, Mir Bernart, Bernart de Rouvenac, anonyme, Carcassonne 1948
• Dictionnaire occitan-français d'après les parlers languedociens, Toulouse 1965, new edition 1977, 6th edition 1997 (703 pages)
• Proverbes de l'Aude, classés et mis en orthographe occitane par Raymond Chabbert, Andouque 1998

literature

• The correspondència entre Loïs Alibert i Josep Carbonell i Gener. Materials per a l'estudi de la codificació de la llengua occitana, ed. by Manuel Alquézar i Montañés, Barcelona 1992

Web links

• Literature by and about Louis Alibert in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://www.jfbrun.eu/lengadoc/alibert.htm (with picture)