Pierre-Benjamin Lafaye

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Pierre-Benjamin Lafaye

Pierre-Benjamin Lafaye (born July 6, 1809 in Mont-Saint-Sulpice , Yonne department , † January 5, 1867 in Aix-en-Provence ) was a French philosopher, linguist, Romance scholar and lexicographer.

life and work

Lafaye was a student at the École normal supérieure . He passed the Agrégation de Philosophie in 1832 , completed his habilitation with the Thèses Dissertation sur la philosophie atomistique (Paris 1833) and Thesis philosophica de definitione (Paris 1833) and was professor of philosophy at the Collège royal in Orléans (1834), at the Collège royal in Marseille (1845) ) and at the University of Aix-en-Provence (also Dean of the Faculté des lettres).

Inspired by the dictionary manuscript of the philosopher Étienne Bonnot de Condillac , which came into his hands, Lafaye dedicated his scientific existence to comparative synonymy (understood as philosophy) . His enormous dictionary (with a theoretical foreword) from 1858 to 1865 made him the most important French synonymist and the forerunner of both structural semantics and collocation research .

Pierre-Benjamin Lafaye was the brother of the painter Prosper Lafaye (1806-1883).

Works

  • Synonymes français , Paris 1841 (625 pages)
  • Dictionnaire des synonymes de la langue française avec une introduction sur la théorie des synonymes , Paris 1858 (83 + 1106 pages; Supplement 1865, 336 pages; 9th edition 1910)
  • Introduction sur la théorie des synonymes , ed. by Annalisa Aruta Stampacchia, Fasano / Paris 2006

literature

  • Franz Josef Hausmann, 102. The Dictionary of Synonyms: Discriminating Synonymy, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1990, pp. 1067-1075
  • Peter Blumenthal, Le dictionnaire des synonymes de Pierre-Benjamin Lafaye, in: Information grammaticale 90, 2001, pp. 62–67
  • Ludwig Fesenmeier, Pierre-Benjamin Lafaye in a European context, in: Journal for French Language and Literature 114, 2004, pp. 225–251

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personal data
SURNAME Lafaye, Pierre-Benjamin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lafaist, Pierre-Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French philosopher, linguist, Romanist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Mont-Saint-Sulpice , Yonne department
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1867
Place of death Aix-en-Provence