Pierre Delbrun
Pierre Delbrun (born June 22, 1605 in Cahors , † August 12, 1676 in Albi ) was a French Jesuit, classical philologist , Romanist and lexicographer .
Life
Delbrun entered the Jesuit order in 1625 . He was secretary to the Provincial of the French Jesuits for ten years .
As a Latin teacher, he published contrasting (comparative) descriptions of the French and Latin languages with rich phraseological material. His French-Latin dictionary with the title Grand Apparat (tool) was particularly successful , in which he translated numerous French contexts back into Latin (obtained through translation from the Latin Ciceros), which resulted in a kind of contrastive phraseology, but at the same time also served the function of a French Dictionary (with Latin as the language of explanation), since monolingual French dictionaries did not exist before 1680.
Works (selection)
- Commissurae gallico-latinae c'est à dire les Liaisons de la langue françoise, avec la latine , Toulouse 1644 (exemplary contrastive grammar French-Latin)
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L'Apparat françois, avec le latin recueilli du seul Ciceron , ensemble and supplement des mots nécessaires qui ne se trouvent pas dans ses oeuvres, tirés des meilleurs autheurs de la langue latine. Le tout enrichi d'un recueil des royaumes, provinces, villes, rivières, isles, montagnes & autres lieux de tout le monde, exprimez par le nom ancien & moderne, Toulouse 1650
- Le grand apparat françois avec le latin recueilli de Cicéron et des meilleurs autheurs de la langue latine , 4th edition, Toulouse 1658 (to 1705)
literature
- J.-B. Vidaillet, Biographie des hommes célèbres du département du Lot , Gourdon 1827, pp. 142–143
- Carlos Sommervogel , Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. Nouvelle édition , Vol. 2, Brussels / Paris 1891, Col. 1890–1891
- Laurent Bray, César-Pierre Richelet (1626–1698) , Tübingen 1986, p. 26
- Martine Furno, De l'érudit au pedagogue. Prosopography des auteurs de dictionnaires latins, XVIe - XVIIIe siècles, in: Tous vos gens a latin. Le latin, langue savante, langue mondaine (XIVe-XVIIe siècles) , ed. by Emmanuel Bury, Geneva 2005, pp. 147-176
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre Delbrun in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delbrun, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Jesuit, classical philologist, Romanist and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1605 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cahors |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1676 |
| Place of death | Albi |