François Just Marie Raynouard

François Marie Just Raynouard ( born September 18, 1761 Brignoles, † October 27, 1836 in Passy ) was a French writer and philologist.

Life

Raynouard was born in Brignoles in Provence, he first studied law and worked as a lawyer in Draguignan. In 1791 he went to Paris during the French Revolution and was elected to the Legislative Assembly, after the fall of the moderate Girondins, he was arrested and narrowly escaped the guillotine. During the captivity Raynouard wrote his first play, Caton d' Utique (1794 ). The following two works Eléonore de Bavaria and Les Templars were played at the Comédie Francaise. Raynouard was elected to the Académie française in 1807, since 1816 and the Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Arts, whose secretary he was stable from 1817 to 1827. 1806 and again in 1811 he was also elected as a deputy of the Var in the Legislative Assembly. After another theater successes, Raynouard dedicated after the end of Napoleonic rule increasingly linguistics and especially its Provencal language. Through the first modern edition of the poetry of the troubadours Choix de poésies original of the troubadours ( 1816-21 ), continued by the Nouveaux choix (1835 ), he contributed significantly to the rediscovery of the Provençal poetry of the Middle Ages. The linguistic basis of the investigation of the Provencal he put in his Elements de la grammaire novels (1816 ) and the monumental Dictionnaire de la langue of the troubadours ( 1838-44 ). A first comparative study of Romance languages ​​is the comparée Grammaire des langues de l'Europe latine dans leurs rapports avec la langue of the troubadours (1821 ), in which he saw the archetype of all Romance languages ​​in Provencal. He examined the Old French language in the philologiques Observations sur le roman de Rou. He died in 1836 in Passy, ​​near Paris.

With his works to troubadour poetry had Raynouard decisive role in the development of the scientific study of the Romance languages. Goethe knew his edition of troubadour poetry and in turn inspired Friedrich Diez, the founder of German Romance, to to to deal on this basis with the troubadour poetry and the Provençal language.

Works (selection)

Theater

  • Caton d' Utique (1794 )
  • Socrate au temple d' Aglaure (1802 )
  • Les Templars (1805 )
  • Les Etats de Blois (1810 )
  • Jeanne d' Arc d' Orléans ( 1810)

Philological

  • Choix de poésies original of the troubadours ( 1816-21 )
  • Éléments de la grammaire novels (1816 )
  • Choix de poésies original of the troubadours ( 1816-21 )
  • The troubadours et des cours d' amour (1817 )
  • Comparée Grammaire des langues de l'Europe latine dans leurs rapports avec la langue of the troubadours (1821 )

Historiography

  • Monuments historiques relatifs à la condamnation des chevaliers du Temple (1813 )
  • Histoire du droit municipal en France sous la domination romaine et sous les trois dynasties (1829 )
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