Robert Lindsay Graeme Ritchie

Robert Lindsay Graeme Ritchie (born November 16, 1880 in Glasgow , † April 10, 1954 in Exmouth (Devon) ) was a Scottish Romanist and Medievalist .

Life

Ritchie studied (with Wilhelm Scholle, who received his doctorate in Strasbourg in 1884) at the University of Aberdeen (graduated in 1904), then in Strasbourg and from 1904 to 1908 in Paris at the Sorbonne and at the École pratique des hautes études with Ferdinand Brunot , Antoine Thomas , Joseph Bédier and especially Mario Roques . He received his doctorate there in 1907 with the work Recherches sur la syntaxe de la conjonction "que" dans l'ancien français depuis les origines de la langue jusqu'au commencement du XIIIe siècle (Paris, Champion, 1907). He taught from 1909 to 1919 as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh , from 1919 to 1946 as a professor at the University of Birmingham and in 1946 at University College Exeter, founded the precursor to the official 1955 University of Exeter .

Works (selection)

• (Ed.) John Barbour , The Buik of Alexander or the buik of the most noble and valiant conquerour Alexander the Grit , 4 vols., Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1921–1929 (see: http://www.arlima.net/il /john_barbour.html ).
  • 2.1. Eustache von Kent, Li Fuerres de Gadres (see: http://www.arlima.net/eh/eustache.html )
  • 2.2 Jacques de Longuyon, Les Vœux du Paon (see: http://www.arlima.net/il/jacques_de_longuyon.html )
• The Normans in Scotland , Cambridge, The University Press, 1954.

Teaching materials (selection)

• (Ed.) Voltaire , London / New York, T. Nelson, 1927.
• (Ed.) A first book of French poetry , London / New York, T. Nelson, 1927.
  • A Second book of French poetry , London / New York, T. Nelson, 1927.
  • A Third book of French poetry , London / New York, T. Nelson, 1929.
• (Ed.) Anatole France , London / New York, T. Nelson, 1928.
• Nelson's French grammar , London, Nelson, 1936.
• (Ed.) France. A companion to French studies , London, Methuen, 1937.

literature

• Studies in French language, literature and history presented to RL Græme Ritchie , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1949; Freeport, New York 1969.
• Frederick Charles Roe [obituary, English], in: French Studies 8, 1954, pp. 287-288.

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Lindsay Graeme Ritchie in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb237-coll-93 (bio-bibliographic note, English)