Philibert Monet

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Philibert Monet (* 1566 in Bonneville ; † March 31, 1643 in Lyon ) was a French Jesuit, classical philologist, Romanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Monet entered the Jesuit order in 1591 and became prefect at the Collège de la Trinité (today: Collège-lycée Ampère ) in Lyon. He published French-Latin dictionaries which, due to the lack of monolingual French dictionaries at the time, were also used in their function.

Monet fought against the etymologizing orthography of the French language of his time.

Works

lexicography

  • Schorus digestus hoc est Delectus latinitatis , Lyon 1612 (numerous editions, considered a masterpiece of Latin studies)
  • Abrégé du parallèle des langues françoise & latine , Lyon 1620 (title page names Bonneville as place of birth)
    • Parallèle des langues françoise et latine rapporté au plus près de leurs propriétés assorti des termes des arts de l'une & de l'autre langue, 4th edition, Paris 1631
  • Ligatures des langues françoise et latine réciproquement appariées & proprement randues les unes par les autres, ou Explication des menus mots françois & latins qui sont la liaison de la structure au langage, Lyon 1629
  • Invantaire des deus langues françoise et latine , assorti des plus utiles curiositez de l'un et de l'autre idiome, Lyon 1635, Geneva 1973
    • Nouueau et dernier dictionaire des langues francoise et latine , Paris 1646 (last revision by Monet of his French-Latin dictionary)

Other works

  • Abacus romanorum rationum , Lyon 1618
  • Origine, et pratique des armoiries a la gaulloise qui est la premiere partie du formulaire des arts, an françois, & an latin, Lyon 1631
  • Galliæ geographia, veteris, recentisque regionum segmentis, & laterculis designata , Lyon 1634
  • Nomenclatura geographica Galliarum , Paris 1643

literature

  • Jean Irénée Depéry, Biographie des hommes célèbres du département de l'Ain , Bourg 1835, pp. 38–40 (names Dortan as place of birth )
  • Carlos Sommervogel , Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. Nouvelle édition , vol. 5, Brussels / Paris 1894, col. 1207–1212 (place of birth as in Depéry 1835)
  • Vincent Wouter Post, Les tentatives de réforme orthographique du Père Monet SJ , Amsterdam 1925
  • Laurent Bray, César-Pierre Richelet (1626–1698) , Tübingen 1986, p. 23

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personal data
SURNAME Monet, Philibert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Jesuit, classical philologist, Romanist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1566
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonneville
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1643
Place of death Lyon