Arsène Darmesteter

Arsène Darmesteter ( born January 5, 1846 in Château- Salins, † November 16, 1888 in Paris) was a French linguist, linguists and lexicographer.

Life and work

Darmesteter came from a Jewish family from Lorraine; his mother came from Prague. He discovered in the yeshiva a text from the 11th century ( the Rabbi Rashi of Troyes ) and turned to the Medieval Studies, which he studied at the Ecole des Chartes and from 1868 pratique Gaston Paris at the Ecole des hautes études in 1865. He was from 1872 to 1877 coach. In 1874 he published a Traité de la formation des mots dans la langue française, aux autres langues comparée Romance et au latin (2nd edition 1894). In 1877 he defended the two theses de doctorat de la création de mots nouveaux actuelle dans la langue française et des lois qui la régissent (reprint Geneva, 1972), and De Floovante, vetustiore gallico poemate et de Merovingo cyclo, scripsit et nunc primum edita adjecit Olavianam Flovents sagae versionem et Excerpta e Parisiensi codice " il libro de Fioravante " and Maître de conférences was for French language and literature of the Middle Ages, from 1883 professor at the Sorbonne. In addition, he taught from 1881 grammar at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Sèvres from 1882 and French at the Ecole Normale. In 1887 he published La Vie des mots dans leurs étudiée significations ( numerous editions, reprints Paris 1979), 1888 a short text La Question de la réforme orthographique.

After his early death Ernest Muret and Léopold Sudre published Cours de grammaire historique de la langue française their teacher in 4 volumes ( 1891-1897 ). His brother, the Orientalist James Darmesteter, published posthumous writings, his biography (p. V- LXXII ) and a bibliography (pp. LXXIII - LXXVI ) under the title Reliques scientifiques ( 2 vols, 1890, divided into Jewish, Jewish- French and French studies).

The Adolphe Hatzfeld begun Dictionnaire général de la langue française du commencement du siècle à nos jours XVIIe, precede d'un traité de la formation de la langue, in the Darmesteter fell to the historical part, has been terminated by Hatzfeld together with Antoine Thomas and 1890-1900 published in 2 volumes.

Other works

• Le Talmud, Paris 1889 [ written in 1866, published in a journal in 1888 ], ( with a foreword by Moshé Catania, Paris 1991, 1997, 2003, 2005)
• (along with David Simon Blondheim [ 1884-1934 ] ), Les Gloses françaises dans les Commentaires de talmudiques Rashi, Paris 1929