Théodore Claude Henri, vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqué

Théodore Claude Henri de La Hersart Villemarqué (* July 7, 1815 in Quimperlé, Finistère department, † December 8, 1895 at Schloss Keransker at Quimperlé ) was a French language and classics scholars.

Hersart de La Villemarqué was a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts where he was proposed by Jacob Grimm and since 1858 a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. Since 1851 He also gave Jean -François Le Dictionnaire français - breton Gonidecs (1847 ) with a history of the Breton language out.

His published under the title Barzaz - Breiz collection of Breton folk songs was transferred by Moritz Hartmann and Ludwig Pfau together into German ( Cologne 1858). The two translators had visited him in 1852 in Brittany. The existence of the collection has documented in the report on this trip Moritz Hartmann.

Works

  • Barzaz - Breiz. Chants populaires de la Bretagne ( Paris. 1840, 2 vols, 6th ed 1867);
  • Contes populaires the anciens Bretons (1842, 2 vols );
  • Poèmes the bardes bretons (1850, 2nd edition 1860);
  • Notices of principaux manuscrits the anciens Bretons (1856 );
  • Le grand mystère de Jésus, drame du moyen - breton age (2nd edition 1866);
  • La legende en Irlande celtique, en Cambrie et en Bretagne (1859 );
  • Myrdhinn, ou l' enchanteur Merlin ( 1861);
  • Les romans de la Table ronde - ( 4th edition 1861)
  • Poèmes du moyen - âge bretons (1879 ).
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