Peter Rickard

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Peter Rickard (born September 20, 1922 in Camborne, Cornwall , † April 2, 2009 ) was a British Romance studies and linguist.

life and work

Rickard studied at Exeter College , Oxford from 1941 to 1949 (with a military service break from 1942 to 1946). From 1949 to 1952 he was a college lecturer at Trinity College (Oxford) . In 1952 he received his doctorate with the work Britain in Medieval French Literature 1100-1500 (Cambridge 1956). In 1952 he went to Cambridge, where he was Assistant Lecturer (1952–1957), Lecturer (1957–1974), Reader (1974–1980) and finally Drapers Professor of French (1980–1982). He was a Fellow from 1953 and from 1983 a Life Fellow at Emmanuel College. In 1982 he was awarded the honorable title of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt).

Other works

  • La Langue française au seizième siècle. Étude suivie de textes, Cambridge 1968.
  • (Ed. And translator) Selected Poems of Fernando Pessoa, Edinburgh 1971.
  • A history of the French language, London 1974, 1989 (German: Tübingen 1977; Japanese: 1995).
  • Chrestomathie de la langue française au XVe siècle, Cambridge 1976.
  • The Embarrassments of Irregularity. The French Language in the 18th Century, Cambridge 1981 (inaugural lecture).
  • The French Language in the 17th Century. Contemporary Opinion in France, Woodbridge 1992.
  • (Staff) Benjamin Constant, Correspondance générale, ed. by Cecil P. Courtney, 5 vols., Tübingen 1993-2007.
  • The Transferred Epithet in Modern English Prose, Cambridge 1996.

literature

  • Interpreting the history of French. A festschrift for Peter Rickard on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, ed. by Rodney Sampson and Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Amsterdam 2002 (with list of publications).
  • [Obituary in:] Les Annales Benjamin Constant 34, 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Rickard, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romance studies and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Camborne, Cornwall
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2009