Simon-Jude Honnorat

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Simon-Jude Honnorat

Simon-Jude Honnorat (born April 3, 1783 in Allos , † July 31, 1852 in Digne-les-Bains ) was a French doctor, botanist, Provençalist and Romanist .

life and work

Honnorat studied in Grenoble and Paris, earned his doctorate in medicine in 1807 with the work L'Histoire naturelle, chimique et médicale des Cantharides (Paris 1807) and settled as a doctor in Digne-les-Bains . Over the course of 30 years, he developed a large dictionary of the Provencal language, past and present, with 107,000 articles, which also contains a lot of factual information and was valued by Frédéric Mistral . The manuscript of a Provençal grammar, which he also completed, was not printed and was lost. In Digne-les-Bains the "Rue du Docteur Honnorat" is named after him.

Works

  • Projet d'un dictionnaire provençal-français, ou Dictionnaire de la langue d'oc, ancienne et moderne, Digne 1840 (80 pages)
  • Dictionnaire Provençal-Français ou dictionnaire de la langue d'Oc ancienne et modern, 3 vols., Digne 1846-1847, Marseille 1971, Geneva 1971 (767, 1420 pages); 2 vol., Raphèle-les-Arles 1991 (2187 pages)
  • Vocabulaire français-provençal, Digne 1848 (183 pages); Raphèle-lès-Arles 1988 (301 pages)

literature

  • Johannes Kramer: The lexicography of Provençal, Rhaeto-Romanic, Sardinian and Dalmatian. in: Dictionaries. An international handbook of lexicography, ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann / Oskar Reichmann / Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta , Vol. 2, Berlin / New York 1990, pp. 1891–1905 (here: p. 1893)
  • Emile Ripert: La Renaissance provençale. Paris 1918, pp. 150-160

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personal data
SURNAME Honnorat, Simon Jew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Onorat, Simon Judah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Romanist and Provençalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Allos
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1852
Place of death Digne-les-Bains