Pierre-Nicolas Bonamy

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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)

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personal data
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