Gaston Paris

Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris ( born August 9, 1839 in Avenay -Val -d'Or, † March 5, 1903 in Cannes) was a French philologist.

Gaston Paris was the son of the writer and philologist Paulin Paris. He studied, among others in Bonn Friedrich Diez Romance Philology and was since 1872 a professor of French language and literature at the Collège de France in Paris. He was active in many areas, but concentrated mainly of French literature of the Middle Ages and established the Roman philology as a discipline in France, by transferring the developed by Karl Lachmann philological method to the edition of Old French and altprovenzalischer texts. Here he was in frequent communication with the Swiss Romanists Adolf Tobler, whom he had met in his Bonn study. He wrote a Grammaire historique de la langue française (1868 ), in which he also opposed the sprachpuristischen tendencies in the French Grammatikographie. Paris founded the French Romanist magazines Revue critique d' histoire et de littérature (1866 -) and Romania (1872 - ).