Paul Lévy (linguist)

Paul Lévy (born May 15, 1887 in Oberseebach , Alsace , then Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † August 29, 1962 in Paris ) was a French linguist and historian .

Life

Paul Lévy was of Jewish origin from Alsace and grew up bilingual. He studied in Germany and France. He earned a doctorate in Strasbourg and became a teacher of German and history at the Lycée Kléber.

Lévy wrote an important linguistic history of Alsace and Lorraine to this day. In 1950 he described the history of the Germans and the German language in France in an extensive research project. In the two-volume work, Lévy explores linguistic and cultural-political questions on the basis of extremely diverse source material.

Works

• Histoire linguistique d'Alsace et de Lorraine (Publications de la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Strasbourg, fasc. 47, 48). 2 vols. Paris 1929.
• La langue allemande en France . Penetration et diffusion des origines á nos jours. Vol. 1: Des origines a 1830. (Bibliothèque de la société des études germaniques, IV). Lyon - Paris 1950. German edition, translated and updated by Barbara Kaltz. The German language in France. 2 Vols. Vol. I: From the beginnings to 1830. Wiesbaden 2013. Vol. II: 1830–1944. Wiesbaden 2016 (i. Dr.).
• Chat about Alsatian language and literature . 1931, updated Dominique Huck, notes by Fritz Weber, Salde, Strasbourg, 2016. Edition française traduite par Marielène Weber, Causeries sur la langue et la littérature d'Alsace,  SALDE, 2015.