Léon Fleuriot

Léon Fleuriot ( born April 5, 1923 in Morlaix, † March 15, 1987 in Paris) was a French historian and Keltologe.

Life

Léon Fleuriot learned at a young age the Breton language and was supported in this by his father, who had the Breton nationalism movement Emsav connected. After his studies in archeology and history, he passed 1950 Agrégation which qualified him for teaching at secondary schools.

He then spent several years as a teacher at various schools, including the Prytanée National Militaire in La Flèche before 1958 Centre national de la recherche scientifique changed and there zuwendete research Celtic languages. Here he started a systematic analysis Breton glosses in a total of 1,300 manuscripts of the 9th and 10th centuries in order to reconstruct as much as possible in this way the Breton language from the period can. In 1964 he received his doctorate at the Sorbonne with his works Dictionnaire des gloses en vieux- breton Le vieux- breton and Eléments d'une grammaire.

In 1966 he was appointed Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Rennes. His research he extended to the other Celtic languages ​​and the relations between the Celtic countries and the rest of Europe in the early Middle Ages. Here he acquired the knowledge of other Celtic languages ​​and he was one example of the very few academics who dominated Cornish fluently.

Works (selection)

The following items were taken from the bibliography of Gwennolé Le Menn:

• Dictionnarie of gloses en vieux breton. Klincksieck Collection Linguistique 62, Paris 1964. This dictionary was published in 1985 with the new title A dictionary of old breton than two -volume work and provided with an English translation by Claude Evans, ISBN 0-9692225-0-5.
• Le vieux breton. Eléments d'une grammaire. Klincksieck Collection linguistique publiée par la Société de Linguistique de Paris 63, Paris 1964.
• Les Origines de la Bretagne. Payot, Paris, 1980, ISBN 2-228-12711-6. (This was intended as the first volume in a series that could not be continued because of the violent deaths. )
• Une Brittany à trois voix ( breton, latin, français). From: Histoire littéraire et culturelle de la Bretagne, Paris, 1987, ISBN 2-85203-845-5.
• Brittany and the Bretons in the relations between the Celtic countries and continental Europe from IV to X century. From the book edited by Heinz Dopsch and R. Juffinger band Virgil of Salzburg, pages 52-58, Salzburg, 1985.