Maurice Molho

Maurice Molho (born July 17, 1922 in Constantinople , † June 17, 1995 in Paris ) was a French Romanist , Hispanic and Catalanist .

life and work

Molho attended the Lycée Carnot in Paris from 1932 to 1940. He studied in Paris with Pierre Fouché and Gustave Guillaume , as well as in Madrid. He received his doctorate in 1954 from the University of Madrid with Rafael Lapesa with the thesis Edición y estudio del Fuero de Jaca and taught at the University of Bordeaux from 1960 and at the University of Limoges from 1969 . In 1971 he completed his habilitation at the Sorbonne with the thesis Sistemática del verbo español. Aspectos, modos, tiempos (2 vols., Madrid 1975) and became professor of Spanish there in 1972. From 1977 to 1980 he was also the first director of the Center for Catalan Studies.

Other works

• Sémantique et poétique. A propos des Solitudes de Góngora , Bordeaux 1949, 1969 (Spanish: Semántica y poética , Barcelona 1978, 1988; Italian Bologna 1991)
• (Ed.) El fuero de Jaca , Zaragoza 1964
• (Ed.) Romans picaresques espagnols , Paris 1968, 1994 (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)
• Linguistiques et langage , Bordeaux 1969
• (Ed. And translator) Cervantès, Le mariage trompeur et le Colloque des chiens , Paris 1970, 1992
• Introducción al pensamiento picaresco , Madrid 1972
• Cervantes. Raíces folklóricas , Madrid 1976, 1986
• Mitologías. Don juan Segismundo , Madrid 1993 (French: Mythologiques. "Don Juan", "La vie est un songe" , Paris 1995)
• (Ed. And translator) Cervantès, Les Travaux de Persille et Sigismonde , Paris 1994
• De Cervantes , Paris 2005

literature

• Mélanges offerts à Maurice Molho , ed. by Jean-Claude Chevalier and Marie-France Delport, 3 vols., Paris 1988 (Les Cahiers de Fontenay 46-48)
• Le Monde June 21, 1995; June 22, 1995
• Construction des identités en Espagne et en Amérique latine. La part de l'Autre. A la mémoire de Maurice Molho , Paris 1996

Web links

• Literature by and about Maurice Molho in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)