Lucien-Paul Thomas

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Lucien-Paul Thomas (born December 25, 1880 in Liège ; † February 3, 1948 in Uccle ) was a Belgian Romanist and Hispanicist.

life and work

Thomas studied with Maurice Wilmotte in Liège and received his doctorate in 1905 on Le lyrisme et la préciosité cultistes en Espagne. Etude historique et analytique (Halle on page 1909). Then he went to Dietrich Behrens in Giessen as a lecturer and became an associate professor there, but returned to Belgium when the war broke out. In Brussels he became a Chargé de cours in 1920 and a full professor in 1922. He founded the Spanish Institute in 1931 and was also Dean from 1938 to 1941. From 1927 he was a corresponding member of the Spanish Academy, from 1934 he was a successor to Albert Counson of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique (successor: Fernand Desonay ).

Other works

  • Étude sur Góngora et le gongorisme considérés dans leurs rapports avec le marinisme, Brussels / Paris 1911
  • (Translator) Pio Baroja, Les Idylles et les songes, Paris 1913
  • (Ed.) Don Luis de Góngora y Argote [poems]. Introduction, traduction et notes, Paris 1931, 1976
  • Le Vers Moderne, ses moyens d'expression, son esthétique, Brussels 1943
  • (Ed.) Le "Sponsus" (Mystère des vierges sages et des vierges folles) suivi des Trois poèmes limousins ​​et farcis du même manuscrit, Paris 1951

literature

  • Albert Henry in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire. 26, 1948, pp. 1308-1316.
  • André Jansen in: Hispanic Bulletin. 50, 1948, pp. 119–123 (with Hispanic scripture index).
  • Nouvelle Biographie Nationale 7, 2003, pp. 341–342 (with literature).

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personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Lucien-Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Romanist and Hispanicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1948
Place of death Uccle / Ukkel