Peter Rickard
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.
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Rickard in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/teaching/fellows/display/index.cfm?fellow=33
personal data | |
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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 |