Mario Roques

Mario Roques (born July 1, 1875 in Callao , † March 8, 1961 in Paris ) was a French Romanist , Medievalist and Albanologist .

Life

Roques grew up in Paris, was Agrégé in 1897 and then until 1900 a scholarship from the Thiers Foundation. He studied at the Sorbonne with Joseph Bédier and Ferdinand Brunot and at the École pratique des hautes études with Gaston Paris and Antoine Thomas , and also at the École des chartes. He studied Spanish, Romanian and Albanian in foreign languages. From 1901 he was active in teaching in Paris until his retirement in 1946 (and sometimes beyond) one after the other and sometimes simultaneously in five different institutions. From 1901 he represented Antoine Thomas in the École normal supérieure and followed Gaston Paris in 1903. In the École nationale des langues orientales (Langues O) he represented Émile Picot for Romanian from 1907 , taught Albanian from 1919 and became its director in 1936. He taught historical grammar at the Sorbonne and founded the Institut des études roumaines. At the École pratique des hautes études he became secretary in 1925 and in 1937 as successor to Antoine Meillet its director. Finally, he taught from 1937 as the successor to Joseph Bédier at the Collège de France and called his chair “Histoire du vocabulaire français”, because he had the vision of an Inventaire général de la langue française, whose materials were later to be found in the Trésor de la langue française by Paul Imbs are included.

From 1933 Mario Roques belonged to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and from 1946 to the Académie royale de Belgique . From 1911 he was editor of the series Les Classiques Français du Moyen Âge, which he founded . From 1911 to 1961 he was the successor of Paul Meyer, the magazine Romania .

Works

• Bibliography des travaux de Gaston Paris (with Joseph Bédier), Paris 1904
• (Ed.) Gaston Paris, Mélanges linguistiques, Paris 1906–1909
• (Ed.) L'Évangéliaire roumain de Coresi, in: Romania 1907
• (Ed.) Gaston Paris, Mélanges de littérature française du moyen âge, Paris 1910–1912, 1966
• (Ed.) Le Garçon et l'aveugle. Jeu du XIIIe siècle, Paris 1911, 1921, 1969
• Etudes de geographie linguistique, d'après l'Atlas linguistique de la France (with Jules Gilliéron), Paris 1912
• (Eds.) Aucassin et Nicolette. Chantefable du XIIIe siècle, Paris 1929
• (Ed.) Jehan Maillart, Le roman du comte d'Anjou, Paris 1931
• Recherches sur les anciens textes albanais, Paris 1932
• (Ed.) Le Dictionnaire albanais de 1635, Paris 1932
• La Poésie roumaine contemporaine, Oxford 1934
• Recueil général des lexiques français du moyen age (XIIe-XVe siècle). I. Lexiques alphabétiques, 2 vols., Paris 1936–1938, Paris 1969
• (Ed.) Le roman de Renart, 6 vols., Paris 1948–1963, 1980
• Études de littérature française, Lille / Geneva 1949
• Le Roman d'Arles, in: Histoire littéraire de la France , 38, 2, 1950
• (Eds.) Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide, Paris 1953
• (Ed.) Le Graal de Chrétien et la Demoiselle au Graal, Geneva / Lille 1955
• Poèmes épiques provençaux du XIVe siècle, in: Histoire littéraire de la France 39.2, 1956
• (Ed.) Roland à Saragosse. Poème épique méridional du XIVe siècle, Paris 1956
• (Ed.) L'Estoire de Griseldis, Geneva / Paris 1957
• (Ed.) Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier de la Charrete, Paris 1958
• (Ed.) Chrétien de Troyes, Le chevalier au lion, Yvain, Paris 1960

literature

• Etudes romanes dédiées à Mario Roques, Paris 1946
• Mélanges de linguistique et de littérature romanes offerts à Mario Roques, 2 vols., Paris 1950–1953 (with list of publications)
• Pour un cinquantenaire scientifique. Mario Roques et les études roumaines, Paris 1953
• Pierre Chantraine in: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 105, 1961, pp. 83-88
• Yves Lefèvre in: Archivum latinitatis medii aevi 31, 1961, pp. 117–121

Web links

• GND 118791125
• http://www.arllfb.be/composition/membres/roques.html (with picture)