William Roach

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William Roach (born June 20, 1907 in South Bend , Indiana ; † July 30, 1993 ) was an American Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Roach studied in Chicago with William A. Nitze and Thomas Atkinson Jenkins and received his doctorate in 1935 with the thesis The religious elements in the "Perlesvaus" (Partial print ud T. Eucharistic tradition in the "Perlesvaus" in: Zeitschrift für Romansische Philologie 59, 1939, p . 10-56).

He taught first at the Catholic University of America and from 1939 until his retirement at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1964 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .

Other works

  • (Ed.) The Didot Perceval, Philadelphia 1941, Geneva 1977
  • (Ed.) The Continuations of the old French "Perceval" of Chretien de Troyes, 6 vols., Philadelphia 1949-1983
    • (1) The first continuation Mss. TVD, 1949, 1965
    • (2) The first continuation Mss. EMQU (with Robert H. Ivy, Jr.), 1950, 1965
    • (3,1) The first continuation Mss. ALPRS, 1952, 1970; Ms. L translated and edited. by Colette-Anne Van Coolput-Storms, Paris 1993
    • (3,2) Glossary of the first continuation (by Lucien Foulet ), 1955, 1970
    • (4) The second continuation, Philadelphia 1971
    • (5) The third continuation (by Manessier), Philadelphia 1983; translated and ed. by Marie-Noëlle Toury, Paris 2004
  • (Ed.) Chrétien de Troyes, Le Roman de Perceval ou le Conte du Graal, Geneva 1956, 1959

literature

  • Lenora D. Wolfgang: William J. Roach (June 20, 1907-30 July 1993), in: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 139, 1995, pp. 184-189

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: William Roach. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Roach, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roach, William Joseph; Roach, William J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH South Bend , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1993