Pierre Canal
Pierre Canal (born January 9, 1564 in Geneva ; † February 2, 1610 ibid) was a Swiss doctor, Romance scholar and lexicographer.
life and work
Canal was the son of a Reformed Geneva notable and a wealthy merchant's daughter from Antwerp. He grew up in Geneva and studied there (graduating in 1584), and until 1588 in Padua and Milan medicine. From 1589 he held important functions in the Geneva city administration, most recently that of Weibel. He was wheeled and burned for treason in favor of the Duke of Savoy Charles Emanuel I.
Canal edited and expanded the French-Italian, Italian-French dictionary by Giovanni Antonio Fenice . The most important source for the Italian-French part was the Italian-Latin dictionary by Filippo Venuti (in the 1596 edition). This explains Venuti's fictional authorship in the late editions of this part.
Works
- Dictionnaire françois et Italien, recueilli premièrement par L. Antoine Phenice et nouvellement reveu et augmente. Dittionario italiano e francese, nel quale si mostra come i vocaboli italiani si possono dire e esprimere in lingua francesa , Geneva 1598; 2nd edition 1603, Paris 1611, Geneva 1626, 1635, 1638, 1644, 1649–1650, Paris 1972 (338, 248 sheets)
literature
- Nicole Bingen, Anne-Marie Van Pass, 316. La lexicographie bilingue français-italien, italien-français, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Third volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann , Oskar Reichmann , Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta , Berlin. New York 1991, pp. 3007-3013
Web links
- Martine Piguet / AW: Canal, Pierre. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Canal, Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Canale, Pietro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss doctor, Romance studies and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1564 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1610 |
| Place of death | Geneva |