Maurice Delbouille

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Maurice Delbouille (born January 26, 1903 in Chênée, Liège ; † October 30, 1984 in Chênée, Liège) was a Belgian Romance and Medievalist .

life and work

Delbouille studied in Liège with Maurice Wilmotte and Auguste Doutrepont . In 1923 he received his doctorate on Le genre pastoral en France avant la Renaissance (published by Les Origines de la pastourelle , Brussels 1926), then he heard in Paris with Joseph Bédier , Alfred Jeanroy , Mario Roques and Edmond Faral , and in Florence with Pio Rajna .

Delbouille taught at the University of Liège from 1929 to 1973 . His students included Louis Remacle , Jules Horrent , Maurice Piron , Jean Renson , Georges Lavis , Madeleine Tyssens , Jeanne Wathelet-Willem , and Louis Chalon . He was an associate editor of Le Moyen Age magazine . From 1940 he belonged to the Académie royale de Belgique.

Delbouille was mayor of Chênée (later incorporated in Liège) for 25 years and Belgian senator for 10 years. He was a member of the socialist party and was politically active in the Walloon movement.

Other works

  • (Ed.) Jacques Bretel , Le tournoi de Chauvency, Liège 1932
  • (Ed. With John Ernst Matzke [1862-1910]) Jakemes, Le roman du castelain de Couci et de la dame de Fayel, Paris 1936
  • (Ed.) Le jugement d'amour ou Florence et Blancheflor, Paris 1936
  • (Ed. With Auguste Doutrepont ) Les Noëls wallons, Gembloux / Paris / Lüttich 1938
  • (Ed.) Petite anthologie liégeoise. Choix de textes wallons: XVIIe - XXe s., Liège 1950
  • (Ed.) Henri d'Andeli, Le lai d'Aristote, Paris 1951
  • Sur la genèse de la "Chanson de Roland", travaux récents, propositions nouvelles. Essai critique, Brussels 1954
  • Les chansons de geste et le livre, Liège 1959
  • La formation des langues littéraires et les premiers textes, Heidelberg 1972 (in: Outline of the Romanesque literatures of the Middle Ages 1, pp. 559–622)

literature

  • Mélanges de linguistique romane et de philologie médiévale offerts à Maurice Delbouille, ed. by Jean Renson and Madeleine Tyssens, 2 vols., Gembloux 1964 (with list of publications)
  • Hommage au professeur Maurice Delbouille, in: Marche Romane. Numéro spécial 1973 (with list of publications)
  • L'œuvre de philologie et de littérature wallonnes de Maurice Delbouille (1903-1984). Communications présentées au colloque du 9 octobre 1999, Liège 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Delbouille, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Chênée, Liège
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1984
Place of death Chênée, Liège