Rita Lejeune

Rita Lejeune ( born November 22, 1906 in Herstal, † March 18, 2009 in Liège ) was a Belgian Romance languages ​​, medievalist and Wallonistin.

Life and work

Rita Lejeune studied as one of the first women in Romance Philology at Maurice Wilmotte in Liege and his doctorate in 1928 Le style dans les oeuvres attribuées à Jean Renart, but also earned a degree from the Ecole pratique des hautes études with the work Recherches sur le Roman de Guillaume de Dole, suivies d'une édition du poème (1936). She made the Agrégation and was 1937-1954 Chargé de cours (assistant professor ) at the University of Liege, where she taught as a second wife. In the early forties, she studied further at Joseph Salvat (1889-1972) in Toulouse in the Okzitanistik. From 1954 to 1977 she was a full professor at the University of Liege. She was editor of the magazine Le Moyen Age and the floor plan of the Romance literature of the Middle Ages. Volume III, Les épopées Romance, Heidelberg 1981-2005. Since 1988 she was a regular member of the Académie royale de Belgique. She was one of the academies in Barcelona and Toulouse, and was an honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux.

Rita Lejeune was the daughter of the Walloon writer Jean Lamoureux († 1918) and sister of the historian Jean Lejeune ( 1914-1979 ). She was married to the politician Fernand Dehousse (1906-1976), mother of the politician Jean -Maurice Dehousse and Romanistin Françoise Dehousse and grandmother of the political scientist Renaud Dehousse (* 1960).

Other works

• L' oeuvre de Jean Renart. Contribution à l' étude du genre romanesque au Moyen Âge, Liege / Paris, 1935, Geneva 1968
• (Ed.) Jean Renart. Le Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Renart DoleJean. Le Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole, Paris 1936
• (Ed.) Renaut [ de Beaujeu ]. Le Lai d' Ignaure ou Lai you prisonnier, Brussels / Liege 1938
• Histoire de la Littérature Wallonne sommaire, Brussels 1942
• Recherches sur le thème: Les chansons de geste et l' histoire, Liege / Paris 1948
• (together with Jacques Stiennon ) La legende de Roland dans l' art du Moyen Âge, Brussels, 1966 ( also German: The Roland legend in medieval art, Brussels 1966)
• (Eds. ), Saint -Laurent de Liège. Église, abbaye et Hôpital militaire. Mille ans d' histoire, Liege 1968
• (Ed., together with Jacques Stiennon ) La Wallonie, les hommes et le pays. Lettres, arts, culture, 4 vols, Brussels 1977-1981
• Littérature et société au Moyen Âge Occitanes, Liege 1979
• Anthologie de la poésie lyrique en Wallon. Text dialectaux traduits en français, 2004 Herstal