Pierre Hourcade

Pierre Hourcade (born August 6, 1908 in Châlons-en-Champagne , † February 3, 1983 in Aix-en-Provence ) was a French Romance scholar , Lusitanist and literary scholar .

life and work

Hourcade studied at the École normal supérieure in Paris , then at the University of Coimbra in Portugal . He finished with the work Guerra Junqueiro et leproblemème des influences françaises dans son œuvre | (Paris 1932). From 1931 to 1932 he was a French lecturer in Coimbra . In 1932 he passed the Agrégation de lettres classiques. From 1935 to 1938 he taught French literature at the University of São Paulo . In 1938 he went back to Portugal and first headed the Institut français in Porto , then from 1941 to 1962 the Institut français in Lisbon (with Paul Teyssier as a staff member). At the same time he was cultural attaché of the French embassy. From 1962 he was head of the Institut français d'Amérique latine and cultural attaché of the French embassy in Mexico , then until his retirement in 1973 he was Conseiller culturel in Ankara . He settled in Aix-en-Provence and still taught at the university there .

Hourcade was an acquaintance of Fernando Pessoa from 1930 to 1934 . He achieved important things for the beginnings of French Lusitanism.

Other works

• Eça de Queirós ea França, transl. and ed. by Castelo Branco Chaves, Lisbon 1936
• (Translated with Michel Berveiller) Jorge Amado , Bahia de tous les saints. Roman, Paris 1938, 1997
• (Transl.) Oliveira Salazar , Le Portugal et la crise européenne, Paris 1940
• Temas de literatura portuguesa, Lisbon 1978

literature

• Marie-Hélène Piwnik: Pierre Hourcade, le Portugal et la France, in: Lisbonne, atelier du lusitanisme français. Actes du colloque, Université Paris 3-Sorbonne nouvelle, 23-24 janvier 2004, organisé par le CREPAL, Center de recherche sur les pays lusophones, ed. by Jacqueline Penjon and Pierre Rivas, Paris 2005, pp. 55-64

Web links

• Literature by and about Pierre Hourcade in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries )