René Pintard
René Pintard (born June 7, 1903 in Paris , † April 1, 2002 in Saint-Jeannet , Département Alpes-Maritimes ) was a French Romance studies and literary scholar .
life and work
Pintard was a student of the Lycée Condorcet and the École normal supérieure . From 1930 to 1937 he was a high school teacher in Sens and at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris . He completed his habilitation in Paris in 1939 with the theses Le Libertinage érudit dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle (Paris 1943, Geneva 1983, 2000) and La Mothe le Vayer, Gassendi, Guy Patin. Etudes de bibliographie et de critique suivies de textes inédits de Guy Patin , (Paris 1943). From 1938 to 1946 he taught at the University of Poitiers , from 1946 to 1973 at the Sorbonne, French literature, first from the 18th century, from 1956 onwards from the 17th century (successor: Jacques Truchet ).
Pintard was an honorary doctorate from the University of Padua .
Other works
- (Collaboration) Correspondance du P. Marin Mersenne, religieux minime, ed. by Cornelis de Waard, 18 vols., Paris 1932-1988
- (Ed.) Montaigne, Essais. Pages choisies, Paris 1935, 1956
- (Ed. With Claude Pichois ) Jean-Jacques entre Socrate et Caton. Textes inédits de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1750-1753, Paris 1972
literature
- Mélanges de littérature française offerts à M. René Pintard, ed. by Noémi Hepp, Robert Mauzi and Claude Pichois , Paris 1975
- Roger Zuber in: Dix-septième siècle 216, 2002, pp. 387-391
- Le Monde April 6, 2002, p. 14
Web links
- Literature by and about René Pintard in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.cairn.info/revue-dix-septieme-siecle-2002-3-page-387.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pintard, René |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Romance studies and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 2002 |
| Place of death | Saint-Jeannet , Alpes-Maritimes department |