Servais Etienne

Servais Etienne (born March 20, 1886 in Jupille , † December 29, 1952 in Ans ) was a Belgian Romance studies and literary scholar.

life and work

Etienne studied in Liège with Maurice Wilmotte and Auguste Doutrepont and received her doctorate in 1914 on Les sources populaires du roman de Balzac (unprinted). Then he was a high school teacher in Dinant and Schaerbeck. From 1923 until his death he taught at the University of Liège . In 1938 he was appointed to the Académie royale de langue et littérature françaises de Belgique.

In the 1920s, Etienne spectacularly turned away from erudition as the basis of literary interpretation (biography, source research) and towards the aesthetic interpretation inherent in the work.

Other works

• Le Genre romanesque en France depuis l'apparition de la "Nouvelle Héloïse" jusqu'aux approches de la Révolution, Brussels / Paris 1922, Geneva 2000
• Les Sources de "Bug-Jargal", Liège 1923
• Défense de la philologie, Brussels 1933, 1947, 1965
• (Ed.) Expériences d'analysis textuelle en vue de l'explication littéraire. Travaux d'élèves, Liège / Paris 1935, Paris 1979

literature

• Etienne Servais, Défense de la philologie et autres écrits. Avertissement de Robert Vivier et portrait souvenir de Fernand Desonay , Brussels 1965
• Paul Delbouille in: Biographie Nationale de Belgique 34, Sp. 270–276 (with literature)
• Maurice Delbouille in: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 31, 1953, pp. 370–373
• Fernand Desonay in: Annuaire de l'Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique 1958, pp. 65–75 (with picture and list of publications)

Web links

• Literature by and about Servais Etienne in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• http://www.arllfb.be/composition/membres/etienne.html (with picture)
• http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rbph_0035-0818_1953_num_31_1_5366 (Maurice Delbouille)