Raoul de Pontbriant
Raoul de Pontbriant (* 1811 , † 1891 ) was a French- Romanian linguist , Rumänist , translator and lexicographer.
life and work
Pontbriant was a professor of French in Romania . He translated Ovid into Romanian and in 1862 published a Romanian-French dictionary with 28,000 Romanian entries and etymological references.
Works
- Dicțiunaru Româno-Francesu , Bucharest / Paris / Leipzig / Göttingen 1862 (794 pages)
literature
- Paul Miron, 189. Romanian Lexicography, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1990, p. 1884
- Revue roumaine d'histoire, Volume 36. Editions de l'Académie de la République socialiste de Roumanie, Bucharest, 1997, p. 210.
Web links
- http://www.revista-studii-uvvg.ro/files/revista_IV_2.pdf (Ștefan Gencărău and Oana-Aurelia Gencărău, JAVaillant. The dictionary as “translation” of the world, in: Studii de știință și cultură 4, June 2008, pp. 19-25)
- http://altmarius.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3496555%3ABlogPost%3A56486&commentId=3496555%3AComment%3A56574&xg_source=activity (photo and description of the dictionary, Romanian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pontbriant, Raoul de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-Romanian Romance philologist, Romanist, translator and lexicographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1811 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1891 |