Paul Meyer (Romanist)

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Paul Meyer (born January 17, 1840 in Paris , † September 7, 1917 in Saint-Mandé ) was a French Romanist , Provençalist and Medievalist.

life and work

Meyer studied at the École des Chartes and graduated in 1861 with the Thèse Recherches sur la langue parlée en Gaule aux temps barbare, Ve - IXe siècle (unprinted). As a teacher he was at the École des Chartes first in 1865, then permanently from 1869 as a representative of his teacher François Guessard , whose professorship for Romance languages ​​he officially took over in 1882 and held until 1916. Also from 1882 to 1916, he succeeded Jules Quicherat as head of the Ecole des chartes (since 1872 already its secretary). From 1876 to 1884 he was active as a professor for the languages ​​and literatures of Southern Europe at the Collège de France, then, due to work overload, he handed over the teaching to Alfred Morel-Fatio as a representative, who was not officially his successor until 1907.

In 1866 Meyer founded the magazine Revue critique d'histoire et de littérature together with Gaston Paris , Charles Morel (1837-1902) and Hermann Zotenberg , in 1872 with Gaston Paris the magazine Romania and in 1875 also with Gaston Paris the Société des anciens textes français, as whose secretary he held until his death. He was a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1883), as well as numerous foreign academies. He was honorary doctor of the University of Oxford and the University of St Andrews , also Commander of the Legion of Honor.

Paul Meyer and his friend Gaston Paris, who had studied in Germany for two years, were the actual founders of the strictly scientific Romance studies in France. Paul Meyer was also particularly fond of Provençal studies through a stay in Tarascon and his acquaintance with Frédéric Mistral from 1860 onwards. His expert engagement in the Dreyfus affair , where he proved his innocence in court, will not be forgotten .

Other works

  • (Ed. With François Guessard ) Aye d'Avignon / Gui de Nanteuil, Paris 1861 (Les anciens poètes de la France 6)
  • (Ed. With Hermann Zotenberg) Barlaam and Josaphat, French poem of the thirteenth century, by Gui de Cambrai, Stuttgart 1864
  • (Ed.) Le Roman de Flamenca, Paris 1865, 1901, Geneva 1974
  • Les Derniers troubadours de la Provence, in: Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des chartes 30 and 31, 1871, Geneva 1973
  • Rapports sur les documents manuscrits de l'ancienne littérature de la France conservés dans les bibliothèques de la Grande-Bretagne, Paris 1871
  • (Ed.) Brun de la Montaigne. Roman d'aventure, Paris 1875
  • (Ed.) La chanson de la croisade contre les Albigeois, commencée par Guillaume de Tudèle, 2 vols., Paris 1875–1879
  • Recueil d'anciens textes bas-latins, provençaux et français, Paris 1877, Geneva 1977
  • (Ed.) Daurel et Beton. Chanson de geste provençale, Paris 1880
  • (Edited with Auguste Longnon ) Raoul de Cambrai, Paris 1882
  • (Translator) Girart de Roussillon. Chanson de geste, Paris 1884, Geneva 1970
  • Alexandre le Grand dans la littérature française du moyen âge, 2 vols., Paris 1886
  • (Ed.) L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, 3 vol., Paris 1891, 1894, 1902
  • (Ed. With Gaston Raynaud ) Le chansonnier français de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Bibl. Nat. Fr. 20050), Paris 1892, New York 1968
  • (Ed. With Henri-Victor Michelant ) L'escoufle. Roman d'aventure, Paris 1894
  • (Ed.) Guillaume de La Barre. Roman d'aventures par Arnaut Vidal de Castelnaudary, Paris 1895
  • (Ed. With Léopold Delisle ) L'Apocalypse en français au XIIIe siècle (Paris MS fr. 403), Paris 1900

literature

  • Necrology. In: Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes 78 , 1917, pp. 429–446.
  • Ursula Bähler: Être femme et philologue il ya cent ans: Maria Johanna Minckwitz écrit à Gaston Paris et à Paul Meyer. In commitment and diversity: Frank-Rutger Hausmann on his 75th birthday , ed. by Wolfgang Asholt, Ursula Bähler, Bernhard Hurch, Henning Krauss and Kai Nonnenmacher, Romance Studies: Beihefte 4 (Munich: AVM, 2018), pp. 47–98. On-line
  • Alain Corbellari: Joseph Bédier vu par Paul Meyer. In: Commitment and Diversity: Frank-Rutger Hausmann on his 75th birthday , ed. by Wolfgang Asholt, Ursula Bähler, Bernhard Hurch, Henning Krauss and Kai Nonnenmacher, Romance Studies: Beihefte 4 (Munich: AVM, 2018), pp. 99–106. Online .
  • Richard Trachsler: Les hommes, les archives, les livres: à propos du Fonds Paul Meyer conservé à la Bibliothèque Universitaire de Nancy. In commitment and diversity: Frank-Rutger Hausmann on his 75th birthday , ed. by Wolfgang Asholt, Ursula Bähler, Bernhard Hurch, Henning Krauss and Kai Nonnenmacher, Romance Studies: Beihefte 4 (Munich: AVM, 2018), pp. 433–444. Online .

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Marie-Paul-Hyacinthe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist, Provençalist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1917
Place of death Saint-Mandé