Robert-Léon Wagner

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Robert-Léon Wagner (born May 12, 1905 in Paris , † February 26, 1982 in Paris) was a French Romanist .

life and work

Robert-Léon Wagner was a student in a Jesuit college in Le Mans . He was Agrégé and high school teacher in Chartres (1930-1934). From 1934 to 1946 he represented René Bray as Maître de conférences at the University of Caen . He completed his habilitation with Charles Bruneau with the two theses Les Phrases hypothétiques commençant par "si" dans la langue française, des origines à la fin du XVIe siècle (Paris 1939) and "Sorciers et magiciens". Contribution à l'étude du vocabulaire de la magie (Paris 1939) and became professor at the Sorbonne in 1946 , in 1949 as successor to Albert Dauzat Directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études , and in 1970 professor at the University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle . He taught intermittently in the Department of French Studies at the University of Manchester . In 1962 the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique elected him to its member.

Wagner was the teacher of an entire generation of French linguists (including Jacqueline Pinchon , Henri Mitterand , Algirdas Julien Greimas and Bernard Quemada , some like Gérard Moignet , Jean Stéfanini or Bernard Pottier , additionally influenced by Gustave Guillaume, who was recognized and promoted by him ). In the broader educated public, Wagner was best known as a co-author of the very successful grammar "Wagner-Pinchon".

Other works

  • Introduction à la linguistique française, Lille / Geneva 1947, 1955
  • Textes d'étude (ancien et moyen français), Lille / Geneva 1949
  • Le XVIe siècle, textes choisis et commentés (together with Gérald Antoine and Pierre Clarac), Paris 1950
  • Corneille, Clitandre, éd. du texte de 1632 avec des variantes et un lexique, Lille / Geneva 1949
  • Supplément bibliographique à l'Introduction à la linguistique française, 1947–1953, Geneva / Lille 1955
  • Grammaire du français classique et modern (together with Jacqueline Pinchon), Paris 1962, 1991
  • Les Vocabulaires français, 2 vols., Paris 1967–1970
  • La Grammaire française, 2 vols., Paris 1968–1973
  • L'Ancien français, Paris 1974
  • Essais de linguistique française, ed. by Jacqueline Pinchon, Henri Mitterand and Bernard Quémada, Paris 1980

literature

  • Gérald Antoine in: Le Français Moderne 50, 1982, pp. 189–190
  • Pierre Swiggers in: Onoma 26, 1982, pp. 384-386
  • Bibliography des travaux de Robert-Léon Wagner, in: Mots 6, 1983, pp. 181–191
  • Homage to Robert-Léon Wagner, in: Cahiers de lexicologie 50/51, 1987

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Robert-Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1982
Place of death Paris