Robert Marichal

Robert Marichal (born March 20, 1904 in Mandres-les-Roses , † October 20, 1999 in Quincy-sous-Sénart ) was a French historian, classical philologist, Romanist and Medievalist .

Life

Marichal attended high school in Melun and studied at the École nationale des chartes (graduated in 1927 with a thesis on the Provencal versions of the old French philosophical novel Le livre de Sidrac ). He became curator of the Archives nationales (France) and taught from 1930 as a professor of French language and literature of the Middle Ages at the Institut catholique de Paris . From 1940 to 1945 he worked as a prisoner of war in the Berlin Papyrus Collection (now the Egyptian Museum Berlin ). From 1959 to 1985 he taught the history of language and writing at the librarian school of the Institut catholique (from 1965 as director). He also taught Latin and French palaeography at the École pratique des hautes études from 1949 until his retirement in 1974 as the successor to Charles Samaran (1879–1982) (from 1969 as President of the Department of Historical and Philological Sciences). In 1974 he was elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and was temporarily its president. He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Works

Romance Studies

• (Ed.) François Rabelais , Pantagruel , Lyon 1935 (introduced by Abel Lefranc ).
• (Ed.) Le Théâtre en France au Moyen Age. Textes choisis. I. Drames liturgiques et théâtre religieux du XIIe et XIIIe siècle , Paris 1937.
• (Ed.) François Rabelais, Le quart Livre , Lille / Geneva, Droz, 1947, 1967 (critical).
• (Ed.) Marguerite de Navarre , La Navire, ou Consolation du roi François Ier à sa soeur Marguerite , Paris, Champion, 1956.
• (Eds.) Marguerite de Navarre, La coche , Geneva / Paris, Droz / Minard, 1971.

Classical Philology and History

• L'Occupation romaine de la Basse-Egypte. Le statut des "auxilia" , Paris, Droz, 1946 (emerged from his work in the Egyptian Museum Berlin in German captivity).
• (Ed. With Albert Bruckner ) Chartae latinae antiquiores. Facsimile edition of the latin charters prior to the ninth century , 49 vols., Olten / Lausanne, Urs Graf Verlag, 1954–1998 (from vol. 13 with other collaborators).
• (with Charles Samaran) Catalog des manuscrits en écriture latine portant des indications de date, de lieu ou de copiste , 7 vols., Paris, Center national de la recherche scientifique, 1959–1985.
• (Ed.) Le Livre des prieurs de Sorbonne 1431-1485. Texts critique , Paris, Aux amateurs de livres, 1987.
• Les Graffites de La Graufesenque , Paris, Éditions du Center national de la recherche scientifique, 1988.
• Les ostraca de Bu Njem , Tripoli, Département des antiquités, Assraya al hamra / Paris, Boccard, 1992.

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Marichal in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Information on Robert Marichal in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .