Oscar Bloch

Oscar Bloch (born May 8, 1877 in Le Thillot , Vosges , † April 15, 1937 in Paris ) was a French Romance scholar and dialectologist.

Life

Bloch completed his habilitation with the works Les Parlers des Vosges méridionales (arrondissement de Remiremont, département des Vosges), étude de dialectologie (Paris 1917, Marseille 1978) and Atlas linguistique des Vosges méridionales (Paris 1914, 1917). He was a teacher at the Lycée Buffon (1917-1937) and from 1926 (as the successor to his teacher Jules Gilliéron ) Directeur d'études for Gallo-Roman dialectology at the École pratique des hautes études (without a successor).

He also had teaching positions at the Sorbonne and at the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay. Together with Adolphe Terracher (1881–1955) he founded the magazine Revue de linguistique romane in 1925 . Together with his teacher colleague René Georgin , he wrote a much-used mother tongue grammar of French, which appeared from 1936 to 1960. He was the father of the Etruscanologist Raymond Bloch (1914–1997).

Works

• (Translation) Eduard Schwan, Grammaire de l'ancien français , Paris 1900, 2nd edition 1913
• Lexique français-patois des Vosges méridionales , Paris 1915
• La pénétration du français dans les parlers des Vosges méridionales , Paris 1921
• (together with Walther von Wartburg ) Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française , Paris 1932

literature

• Dictionnaire de biography française sv
• Georges Gougenheim in: Vox Romanica 2, 1937, pp. 478-480
• Romania 1937, pp. 556-557
• Le Français Moderne 1937, p. 206
• Peter Lauwers, La description du français entre la tradition grammaticale et la modernité linguistique. Etude historiographique et épistémologique de la grammaire française entre 1907 et 1948 , Leuven 2004

Web links

• Literature by and about Oscar Bloch in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• G. Gougenheim: Necrology for Oscar Bloch (1877-1937) . In: Vox Romanica , Vol. 2, 1937, pp. 478-481. ( Digitized version )