Pierre Groult
Pierre Groult (* 1895 in Lessines ; † April 11, 1968 in Leuven ) was a Belgian Romance and Hispanic scholar .
life and work
Groult studied Catholic theology at the Catholic University of Leuven and was ordained a priest in 1920. Then he studied Hispanic studies with Alphonse Bayot and received his doctorate with the work Les Mystiques des Pays-Bas et la littérature espagnole du XVIe siècle (Leuven 1927; Spanish: Los místicos de los Paises Bajos y la literatura espiritual española del siglo XVI , Madrid 1976). After a period of teaching at the École Normale in Braine-le-Comte , he was from 1937 (as the successor to his teacher) professor at the Catholic University of Leuven. There he founded the magazine Les lettres romanes in 1947 and in 1951 the "Centro de Estudios hispánicos".
Other works
- (Ed. With V. Emond) Anthologie de la littérature française du Moyen Age des origines à la fin du XIIIe Siècle , 2 vols., Gembloux 1942–1943, 4th edition, Löwen 1987
- (Ed. With Alphonse Bayot) Bonino Mombrizio, La Légende de Sainte Catherine d'Alexandre. Italian Poème du XVe siècle , Gembloux 1943
- La Formation des langues romanes , Tournai / Paris 1947
- (Ed. And translator) Anthologie de la littérature spirituelle du XVIe siècle , Paris 1959
- Literatura espiritual española. Edad media y renacimiento , Madrid 1980 (collected writings)
- (with V. Émond and G. Muraille) Dictionnaire de la langue du Moyen Âge , Montreal 2003
literature
- Robert Ricard , [Obituary] in: Bulletin Hispanique 70, 1968, pp. 645-647
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre Groult in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Groult, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian Romanist and Hispanicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lessines |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1968 |
| Place of death | Lions |