Pierre Gardette

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Pierre Gardette (born June 13, 1906 in Tarare, Département Rhône , † September 22, 1973 in Lyon ) was a French Romance scholar and dialectologist .

life and work

The abbé (later Monseigneur) Gardette was a student of Joseph Bédier , taught from 1930 in Lyon at the Faculté catholique and completed his habilitation in 1940 in Grenoble with Antonin Duraffour with the two theses Géographie phonétique du Forez (Mâcon 1941) and Etudes de géographie morphologique sur les patois du Forez (Mâcon 1941). In 1941 he became professor at the Faculté catholique, from 1945 to 1964 he was its rector.

In 1942, Gardette founded the Institut de linguistique romane des Facultés catholiques de Lyon (which was renamed “Institut Pierre Gardette” after his death) at his faculty and compiled the linguistic atlas of the Franco-Provencal dialects in the greater Lyon area.

Gardette was a corresponding member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 1961–1962 president of the Société historique, archéologique et littéraire de Lyon and from 1966 directeur de recherches at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

Other works

  • with André Devaux & Antonin Duraffour : Les patois du Dauphiné. Lyon 1935
  • with André Devaux & Antonin Duraffour: Dictionnaire des patois des Terres Froides. Mâcon 1935
  • with André Devaux & Antonin Duraffour: Atlas linguistique des Terres Froides. Lyon 1935
  • (Ed.): Lous poèmes daoü païsan. Mâcon 1938
  • Atlas linguistique et ethnographique du Lyonnais. Vol. 1, Lyon 1950, Paris 1967; Vol. 2, Lyon 1952, Paris 1970; Vol. 3, Lyon 1956, Paris 1984; Vol. 4, Paris 1968; Vol. 5, Paris 1976
  • with Antonin Duraffour & Paulette Durdilly (eds.): Les Oeuvres de Marguerite d'Oingt . Paris 1965
  • Textes littéraires en dialecte lyonnais. Poèmes, théâtre, noëls et chansons: XVIe-XIXe siècle. Edited by Simone Escoffier and Anne-Marie Vurpas. Paris 1981
  • Études de geographie linguistique. Edited by Brigitte Horiot, Marie-Rose Simoni-Aurembou and Georges Straka. Strasbourg / Paris 1983

literature

  • Mélanges de linguistique et de philologie romanes offerts à Monseigneur Pierre Gardette. Strasbourg 1966
  • Kurt Baldinger, Georges Straka in: Revue de linguistique romane. 38, 1974, pp. 1–32 (with list of publications) and in: Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie , 90, 1974, pp. 660–678
  • Brigitte Horiot: Le rôle de Mgr Gardette dans la naissance des études lexicologiques au Québec , in dies., Ed .: Français du Canada - Français de France , 7.- Actes du septième Colloque international de Lyon, 16-18 June 2003 .Series : Canadiana Romanica, 22. Verlag de Gruyter, Berlin 2008 ISBN 9783484970557 (anthology)

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personal data
SURNAME Gardette, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romance studies and dialectologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarare
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 1973
Place of death Lyon