Pierre Le Gentil
Pierre Le Gentil (born November 1, 1906 in Vertus ; † October 15, 1989 ) was a French Romanist , Hispanic and Medievalist .
life and work
Le Gentil was a student of the Lycée Henri IV and the École normal supérieure . He studied with Alfred Jeanroy and Mario Roques and passed the Agrégation de grammaire in 1930 . From 1932 to 1936 he taught in Orléans , from 1936 to 1937 at the University of Coimbra , from 1937 to 1938 at the Lycée Buffon in Paris ; then he taught at Rennes University until the outbreak of war . From 1940 to 1945 he was in German captivity. In 1947 he completed his habilitation with the two theses La poésie lyrique espagnole et portugaise à la fin du Moyen Age (2 volumes, Rennes 1949–1953, Geneva 1981) and Le virelai et le villancico. Leproblemème des origines arabes (Paris 1954) and was appointed to the Sorbonne in 1948 as successor to Albert Pauphilet . There he taught until 1972 as a colleague of Jean Frappier . In 1955 he was co-founder and until 1973 first president of the Société Rencesvals. From 1970 to 1978 he was President of the Société de langue et littérature médiévales d'oc et d'oïl (SLLMOO).
Pierre Le Gentil was the son of the Lusitanist Georges Le Gentil .
Other works
- La chanson de Roland , Paris 1955, 1967 (English: Cambridge, Mass. 1969)
- La littérature française du Moyen-âge , Paris 1963, 1966, 1968, 1972, 1978, 1985, 1990
- Villon , Paris 1967, 1968, 1974
literature
- Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales offerts à Pierre Le Gentil, professeur à la Sorbonne, par ses collègues, ses élèves et ses amis , Paris 1973
- Jean Dufournet in: Le Moyen Age 97, 1991, pp. 323-331
Web links
- Literature by and about Pierre Le Gentil in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Le Gentil, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romanist, Medievalist and Hispanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vertus |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1989 |