Louis Gauchat
Louis Gauchat (born January 12, 1866 in Les Brenets , † August 22, 1942 in Lenzerheide ) was a Swiss Romance philologist and linguist .
life and work
Gauchat studied in Zurich and Paris (with Gaston Paris ) and received his doctorate in 1890 with Heinrich Morf in Zurich on Le patois de Dompierre (Halle a. P. 1891). He was then a high school teacher in Bern and Zurich and a private lecturer (1893 to 1896 in Bern, 1897 to 1902 in Zurich). From 1902 to 1907 he was a full professor in Bern . From 1907 to 1931, he was Jakob Ulrich's successor in Zurich, where he held the Romance Linguistic Department and from 1926 to 1928 he was also the rector of the university.
Together with Jules Jeanjaquet and Ernest Tappolet , he founded the Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande in 1899 , and together with Albert Bachmann the phonogram archive of the University of Zurich in 1913 .
Other works
- L'unité phonétique dans le patois d'une commune, in: From Romance languages and literatures. Festschrift Heinrich Morf, Halle an der Saale 1905, reprint Genève 1980, pp. 175–232
- Grammaire et lexicographie des patois de la Suisse romande: Bibliographie analytique, Neuchâtel 1916
- Les noms de lieux et de personnes de la Suisse romande: Bibliographie analytique, Neuchâtel 1919
- Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande, fondé par Louis Gauchat, Jules Jeanjaquet, Ernst Tappolet, Neuchâtel 1924 ff.
literature
- Commemorative publication for Louis Gauchat on his 60th birthday, January 12, 1926. Dedicated by friends and students from Switzerland. Aarau 1926.
- Andres Kristol : Gauchat, Louis. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Andres Kristol in: Lexicon grammaticorum. Edited by Harro Stammerjohann. Tübingen 1996, pp. 328-329 (with bibliography).
- Andres Kristol: Louis Gauchat. In: Les linguistes suisses et la variation linguistique. Edited by Jakob Wüest. Basel / Tübingen 1997, pp. 101–114 (with bibliography).
- Andrea Schorta : Necrology for Louis Gauchat (1866–1942). In: Vox Romanica 7, 1942, pp. 349-353 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis Gauchat in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of the courses held by Louis Gauchat at the University of Zurich (winter semester 1897 to summer semester 1900)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gauchat, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Romance Studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Les Brenets |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 22, 1942 |
| Place of death | Lenzerheide |