Rita Lejeune

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Rita Lejeune (born November 22, 1906 in Herstal ; † March 18, 2009 in Liège ) was a Belgian Romanist , Medievalist and Walloonist .

Life

Rita Lejeune was one of the first women to study Romance philology with Maurice Wilmotte in Liège and received her doctorate in 1928 on Le Style dans les œuvres attribuées à Jean Renart , but also graduated from the Paris Ecole pratique des hautes études with the thesis Recherches sur le Roman de Guillaume de Dole, suivies d'une édition du poème (1936). She made the Agrégation and was from 1937 to 1954 Chargée de cours (assistant professor) at the University of Liège, where she taught as the second woman. In the early 1940s she trained in Occitan studies with Joseph Salvat (1889–1972) in Toulouse. From 1954 to 1977 she was a full professor at the University of Liège. She was editor of the magazine Le Moyen Age and the outline of the Romanesque literatures of the Middle Ages. Volume III, Les épopées romanes , Heidelberg 1981-2005. Since 1988 she has been a full member of the Académie royale de Belgique. She belonged to the academies in Barcelona and Toulouse and was an honorary doctor from the University of Bordeaux.

Rita Lejeune was the daughter of the Walloon writer Jean Lamoureux († 1918) and sister of the historian Jean Lejeune (1914–1979). She was married to the politician Fernand Dehousse (1906-1976), mother of the politician Jean-Maurice Dehousse and the Romanist Françoise Dehousse and grandmother of the political scientist Renaud Dehousse (* 1960).

Works

  • L'œuvre de Jean Renart. Contribution à l'étude du genre romanesque au Moyen Âge, Liège / Paris, 1935, Geneva 1968
  • (Ed.) Jean Renart. Le Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole Jean Renart. Le Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole, Paris 1936
  • (Ed.) Renaut [de Beaujeu]. Le Lai d'Ignaure ou Lai du prisonnier, Brussels / Liège 1938
  • Histoire sommaire de la Litterature Wallonne, Brussels 1942
  • Recherches sur le thème: Les chansons de geste et l'histoire, Liège / Paris 1948
  • (together with Jacques Stiennon) La légende de Roland dans l'art du Moyen Âge, Brussels 1966 (also German: The Roland saga in medieval art, Brussels 1966)
  • (Ed.) Saint-Laurent de Liège. Église, abbaye et hôpital militaire. Mille ans d'histoire, Liège 1968
  • (Ed. Together with Jacques Stiennon) La Wallonie, le pays et les hommes. Lettres, arts, culture, 4 vols., Brussels 1977-1981
  • Littérature et société occitanes au Moyen Âge, Liège 1979
  • Anthologie de la poésie lyrique en wallon. Textes dialectaux traduits en français, Herstal 2004

literature

  • Mélanges offerts à Rita Lejeune, professeur à l'Université de Liège 1969, 2 volumes, Gembloux 1969
  • Philippe Ménard: Rita Lejeune (1906-2009), in: Le Moyen Age 115, 2009, pp. 745-749

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Décès de Rita Lejeune, philologue et membre de l'Académie , Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium . March 19, 2009. 
personal data
SURNAME Lejeune, Rita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lejeune-Dehousse, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Romanist, Medievalist and Walloonist
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Herstal
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2009
Place of death Liege