François-Urbain Domergue

François -Urbain Domergue ( born March 24, 1745 in Aubagne, Bouches -du -Rhône Dept, . † May 29, 1810 in Paris) was a French grammarian and journalist.

Domergue was the son of a pharmacist. After leaving school in his hometown, he studied at the College of Oratorier in Marseille. Then he got a job as a teacher in Lyon where he married the daughter of a doctor.

Founded in 1784 Domergue the journal " Journal de la langue Francoise ". Later he settled in Paris, where he soon founded the Société des amateurs de la langue française. Through this project, and his publications in other journals, we became aware of him and appointed him as Professor of grammar and language at the Collège des Quatre Nations (Paris). Later Domergue moved in the same capacity at the Lycée Charlemagne.

1803 took the Académie française Domergue as successor to the late physician Félix Vicq d' Azyr in their ranks ( armchair 1). After his death in 1810 he was succeeded by the poet Ange -François Farineau de Saint -Ange in this position.

Works (selection)

• Grammaire Francoise simplified joint. Lyon 1778.

• Journal de la langue Francoise.