Pierre-Nicolas Bonamy
Pierre-Nicolas Bonamy (born January 19, 1694 in Louvres , † July 8, 1770 in Paris ) was a French historian and Romanist .
life and work
Bonamy was first librarian at the Abbey of Saint-Victor (Marseille) . In 1749 he was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and appointed historiographer for the city of Paris.
Between 1756 and 1759 Bonamy presented four memoranda with which he distinguished himself as an early representative of Romance studies :
- Mémoire sur l'introduction de la langue latine dans les Gaules sous la domination des Romains
- Reflections on the Latin vulgaire language
- Dissertation on the causes de la cessation de la langue tudesque en France
- Explication des sermens en langue romance
literature
- Pierre-Nicolas Bonamy, Four Essays on Vulgar Latin and the Early History of French, ed. by Jörn Albrecht, Tübingen 1975
- Jörn Albrecht: Pierre-Nicolas Bonamy (1694-1770). A Romanist ante litteram, in: In Memoriam Friedrich Diez. Files of the Colloquium on the History of Science in Romance Studies, ed. by Hans-Josef Niederehe and Harald Haarmann, Tübingen 1976, pp. 105–125
- Pierre Swiggers: Linguistique et grammaticographie romanes, in: Lexikon der Romanistische Linguistik I, 1, Tübingen 2001, pp. 36–121 (here pp. 86–87)
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre-Nicolas Bonamy in the catalog of the German National Library
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SURNAME | Bonamy, Pierre-Nicolas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian and Romanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1694 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Louvres |
DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1770 |
Place of death | Paris |