Pierre-Claude Boiste

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Pierre-Claude Boiste (* 1765 in Paris , † April 24, 1824 in Ivry-sur-Seine ) was a French Romanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Boiste was a lawyer, then a printer and publisher. In 1800 his Dictionnaire universel de la langue françoise appeared , one of the greatest successes of the French language dictionary, which appeared in 15 editions by 1866. The success lay in the profound restructuring of French society in the 50 years that followed the French Revolution . Many less educated people got into positions economically which aroused in them the ambition for linguistic, i.e. above all orthographical, correctness. This gave rise to a need for documentation of the technical terms, which were rapidly increasing in the early industrial age. The dictionary of the Académie française was helpless to meet this need. Boiste, on the other hand, was able to achieve the impression of completeness by continually expanding it, thus satisfying a primordial myth of lexicography.

literature

  • Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gérand: PCV Boiste, tératolexicographe? L'exemple du “Dictionnaire universel”, in: Autour de Féraud, Paris 1986, pp. 119–127

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personal data
SURNAME Boiste, Pierre-Claude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boiste, Pierre-Claude-Victor; Boiste, Pierre Claude Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French romanist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1824
Place of death Ivry sur Seine