Robert Bossuat

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Robert Émile Étienne Bossuat (born August 6, 1888 in Paris , † November 12, 1968 in Paris ) was a French Romanist and Medievalist.

Life

From 1908 Bossuat attended the École nationale des chartes ( Grande école ) in his hometown and was able to successfully complete his studies in 1910 with the work 'Li Livres d'amours' de Drouart La Vache supervised by Paul Meyer ; the Agrégation de grammaire was just as successful in 1914 . In the same year he was called up and took part in the First World War. After being wounded and imprisoned, he was a high school teacher in Laon , Dijon and Paris.

He completed his habilitation in 1928 with the two works Drouart la Vache, traducteur d'André le Chapelain , 1290 (Paris 1926) and (ed.) Li livres d'amours de Drouart La Vache (Paris 1926). His teachers were, besides Paul Meyer, Antoine Thomas , Alfred Jeanroy and Mario Roques . Edmond Faral (1882-1958) was his friend.

From 1927 he made substitute professorships at the École pratique des hautes études and from 1930 at the Sorbonne . From 1937 to 1955 (interrupted by further participation in the war and imprisonment from 1940 to 1941, he was rector of the "University" of OFLAG VIII H) he held the chair for narratives and literary sources at the École national des chartes, from 1955 to 1958 as successor to Clovis Brunel the chair for Romance Philology (successor: Jacques Monfrin [1924–1998]). From 1947 he was co-editor of the magazine Le Moyen Âge and from 1962, as successor to Mario Roques, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres .

Robert Bossuat was the brother of the historian and medievalist André Bossuat (1892-1967). He died at the age of eighty on November 12, 1968 in Paris and found his final resting place on the Cimetière parisien de Pantin ( Département Seine-Saint-Denis ) near Paris.

Works (selection)

as an author
  • Histoire de la littérature française publiée sous la direction de Jean Calvet [1874-1965] . Le Moyen Age, Paris 1931, 1955
  • Les Croisades . Paris 1936.
  • Bertrand you Guesclin . Paris 1938.
  • Manuel bibliographique de la littérature française du Moyen Age, Melun 1951, Supplements 1954, 1961; Nendeln 1971, Geneva / Paris 1986; Supplement 1960-1980 by Françoise Vielliard and Jacques Monfrin, Paris 1986, 1991
  • Theséus de Cologne . In: Le Moyen Âge , 1959.
  • together Louis Pichard and Guy Raynaud de Lage: Le Moyen Âge . In: Georges Grente (ed.): Dictionnaire des lettres françaises . Fayard, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-213-59340-X (EA Paris 1964)
  • Raoul de Presles . In: Histoire littéraire de la France , vol. 40 (1973).
as editor
  • Bérinus, roman en prose du 14e siècle . Paris 1931/33 (2 vol.)
  • Extraits des chansons de geste (Classiques Larousse). Montrouge 1935.
  • La Poésie lyrique au moyen âge (Classiques Larousse). Paris 1936.
  • La Littérature morale au Moyen-âge (Classiques Larousse). Paris 1937.
  • Tristan and Iseut . Conte du XIIe siècle . Paris 1951 (reconstitution)
  • Alain de Lille , “Anticlaudianus” . Paris 1955.
  • together with André Bossuat: Deux moralités inédites, composées et représentées en 1427 et 1428 au Collège de Navarre . Paris 1955.
  • together with Guy Raynaud de Lage : Les Évangiles des domées . Paris 1955
  • Le Roman de Renard . Paris 1957.
  • together with René Fromilhague, René Pomeau and Jacques Robichez : René Jasinski, Histoire de la littérature française . Paris 1965, 1977 (2 vol.)
as translator
  • together with André Bossuat: “Le livre de la chasse” by Gaston Phébus . Texts intégral traduit en français modern . Paris 1931, 1986.
    • German: The book of the hunt . Facsimile publishing house, Lucerne 2005.

literature

  • Michel François: Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Robert Bossuat, lue dans la séance du 3 decembre 1971 . In: Institut de France , Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres: Comptes-rendus , Vol. 115 (1971), pp. 728-737.
  • Jacques Monfrin: Robert Bossuat . In: Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes , Vol. 129 (1971), pp. 514-521.
  • Gabriel Fournier: André Bossuat, Professeur d'histoire du Moyen Age et historien de l'Auvergne . In: Revue d'Auvergne , Vol. 82 (1968), ISSN  0151-1912

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personal data
SURNAME Bossuat, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bossuat, Robert Émile Étienne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1968
Place of death Paris