Jules Horrent

Jules horrent (* April 11, 1920 in Seraing, † 11 September 1981 in Neuville, village in the district of Stavelot Francorchamps, Belgium) was a Belgian linguist, Hispanist, Italianist, Lusitanist and medievalist.

Life and work

Horrent was a pupil of Maurice Delbouille and his assistant from 1942 to 1948 in Liege. He received his doctorate in 1947 with the unpublished work Recherches sur " La Chanson de Roland " dans les Littératures de la péninsule ibérique and consisted 1949 Agrégation with Thèse La chanson de Roland dans les Littératures française et espagnole au Moyen âge (Paris 1951), in which the dissertation was received. From 1952 to 1956 he was Chargé de cours, from 1956 professor of Romance languages ​​and literatures at the University of Liege.

From 1971 taught horrent in Liege philology of the Romance languages ​​, as well as Spanish, Hispanic- American, Italian, Portuguese and Brazilian literary history.

Jules horrent was awarded in the presence of the King of Francqui Prize 1968. He was from 1973 a member of the Académie royale de Belgique and from 1979 the Real Academia Española.

Other works

• Roncesvalles, étude sur le fragment de cantar de geste Conserve à l' Archivo de Navarra ( Pampelune ), Paris 1951
• Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne. Essai d' explication littéraire avec des notes de textual critique, Paris 1961
• Historia y en torno al poesía " Cantar del Cid ", Barcelona 1973
• Chanson de Roland et gesture de Charlemagne, 2 vols, Heidelberg 1981-1985 (plan of Romance literature of the Middle Ages 3 A 1)
• (Ed.) Cantar de Mio Cid, 2 vols, 1982 Gent