Albert Henry (historian)

Albert Henry ( born March 20, 1910 in Gembloux -Grand- Manil, † February 22, 2002 in Nancy) was a Belgian linguist and medievalist.

Life and work

Henry went to school in Namur. He studied from 1928 to 1932 at the Université libre de Bruxelles Romance and Classical Philology. After military service, and a short time high school teacher, he studied from 1934 in Paris with Georges Straka and Gianfranco Contini Mario Roques, Oscar Bloch, Georges Millardet, Gustave Cohen and Joseph Bédier. 1936 and 1937 was followed by stays in Perugia. From April 1940 to May 1945 he spent together with Maurice Leroy five years in the camps officer of Weilburg, Tibor, Prenzlau, Fischbeck and Lübeck. From 1946 to 1958 he taught as a professor in Ghent from 1958 to 1976 in Brussels. Saint- John Perse was friendly terms with him.

Henry was an avowed Walloon what he both poetically ( Walloon Offrande, Andenne 1946, originated in the Prenzlauer captivity, 2nd edition 1962, 3rd edition 1990) as linguistically ( Wallon et Wallonia. Outline of a histoire sémantique, Brussels 1965, expanded 1974 and 1990 udT Outline of a histoire des mots et Wallonia Walloon ) expressed.

Henry was a member of the Belgian Academy, the Swedish Academy, the Medieval Academy of America and the Accademia dei Lincei. The Institut de France drew from two of his books.

Other works

Publishing activities

Saint- John Perse

  • Amer de Saint- John Perse. Une poésie du mouvement, Neuchâtel 1963
  • Amitié du Prince de Saint- John Perse, Paris 1979
  • Anabase de Saint- John Perse, Paris 1983
  • Saint- John Perse: Nocturne, Paris 1985
  • Lettres d' Alexis Leger [ Saint- John Perse ] à Gabriel Frizeau (1906-1912), Brussels 1993

Villon

  • (together with Jean Rychner ) Le Testament Villon, 2 vols, Geneva 1974
  • (together with Jean Rychner ) Villon Le Lai et les Poèmes variés, 2 vols, Geneva, 1977
  • (together with Jean Rychner ) Le Testament Villon, Villon le Lais et les Poèmes variés. Index, Geneva 1985

Medieval texts

  • Adenet le Roi, Berte as grans pies, Geneva 1982
  • Chrestomathie de la littérature en ancien français, 2 vols, Bern 1953, 7th Edition 1994
  • L' oeuvre lyrique d' Henri III, duc de Brabant, Bruges 1948
  • Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas de Jehan Bodel, Paris / Brussels in 1962, in 1965, Geneva 1981
  • Les oeuvres d' Adenet le Roi, 5 parts in 6 volumes, Bruges 1951, 1953, 1956, Paris / Brussels 1963 Brussels 1971
  • Sarrasins: Le roman du Hem, Brussels / Paris 1939

More

  • Testi Valloni antichi e moderni, Modena 1940

Monographs and anthologies

  • Langage et poésie chez Paul Valéry. Avec un lexique the oeuvres en vers, Paris 1952
  • Les grands poèmes andalous de Federico Garcia Lorca, Ghent 1958
  • Etudes de lexicologie française et Gallo- fiction, Paris / Brussels 1960
  • Etudes de syntaxe expressive ( ancien français et français modern ), Paris / Brussels 1960, 2nd edition 1977
  • C'était il y a of lunes. Etudes de syntaxe française, Paris 1968
  • Automne. Etudes de philology, de linguistique et de stylistique, rassemblées et publiées par of collègues, the élèves et des amis de l' auteur, 1977 Gembloux
  • Metonymy et métaphore, Brussels 1971, 2nd edition 1984
  • Lecture de quelques Illuminations [ de Rimbaud ], Brussels 1989, fashioned udT Contributions à la lecture de Rimbaud, Brussels 1998
  • Contribution à l' étude du langage langue d' oïl Oenologique s ( XIIe - XVe siècle ), Brussels 1996
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