Paul Meyer (philologist)

Paul Meyer ( born January 17, 1840 in Paris, † September 7, 1917 in Saint- Mandé ) was a French linguist, Provenzalist and medievalist.

Life and work

Meyer studied at the École des Chartes and graduated in 1861 with the Recherches sur la langue Parlee Thèse en Gaule aux temps barbares, Ve - IXe siècle ( unpublished ) from. As a teacher he was at the École des Chartes first in 1865, then permanently in 1869. Representing his teacher François Guessard whose professor of Romance languages he officially took over in 1882 and remained until 1916 Also from 1882 to 1916 he was the successor of Jules Quicherat director of the Ecole des Chartes (already its secretary since 1872 ). From 1876 to 1884 he was at the Collège de France actively to the Chair of the languages and literatures of southern Europe, then he gave for work overload teaching at Alfred Morel - Fatio as representatives from, but until 1907 officially became his successor.

In 1866, Meyer along with Gaston Paris, Charles Morel ( 1837-1902 ) and Hermann Zotenberg the Revue critique d' histoire et de littérature, 1872, Gaston Paris, the magazine Romania and 1875 also with Gaston Paris, the Société des anciens textes français, as whose secretary he served until his death. He was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1883 ), as well as many foreign academies. He was an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford and the University of St Andrews, also Commander of the Legion of Honour.

Paul Meyer and his friend Gaston Paris, who had studied in Germany two years were the real founders of the strictly scientific Romance in France. Paul Meyer was also attached by a stay in Tarascon and the acquaintance with Frédéric Mistral in 1860 in a special way the Provenzalistik. Unforgettable is his expert 'involvement in the Dreyfus affair, where he proved his innocence in court.

Other works

(Ed. with François Guessard ) Aye d' Avignon / Gui de Nanteuil, Paris 1861 ( Les anciens de la France poètes 6)
( Eds with Hermann Zotenberg ) Barlaam and Josaphat, French poem of XIIIten century, Gui de Cambrai, Stuttgart 1864
(Ed. ), Le Roman de Flamenca, Paris 1865, 1901, Geneva 1974
Les Derniers troubadours de la Provence, in Bibliothèque de l' Ecole des Chartes 30 and 31, 1871, Geneva 1973
Rapport sur les documents de l' ancienne manuscrits littérature de la France dans les bibliothèques Conserves de la Grande -Bretagne, Paris 1871
(Ed.) Brun de la Montaigne. Roman d' Aventure, Paris 1875
(Ed.) La chanson de la contre les croisade Albi, commencée par Guillaume de Tudèle, 2 vols, Paris 1875-1879
Recueil d' anciens textes bas - latins, provençaux et français, Paris 1877 and Geneva in 1977
(Ed.) et Daurel concrete. Chanson de geste Provençale, Paris 1880
( Hrsg.mit Auguste Longnon ) Raoul de Cambrai, Paris 1882
( translator ) Girart de Roussillon. Chanson de geste, Paris 1884, Geneva 1970
Alexandre le Grand dans la littérature française du moyen âge, 2 vols, Paris 1886
(Ed.) L' Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, 3 Bd, Paris 1891-1894-1902
(Ed. with Gaston Raynaud ) Le français chansonnier de Saint -Germain -des- Prés (Bibl. nat. Ms. 20050 ), Paris 1892, New York 1968
(Ed. with Henri -Victor Michelant ) L' escoufle. Roman d' Aventure, Paris 1894
(Ed.) Guillaume de La Barre. Roman d' aventures par Arnaut Vidal de Castelnaudary, Paris 1895
(Ed. with Léopold Delisle ) L' Apocalypse en français au XIIIe siècle (Paris MS Fr. 403 ), Paris 1900

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