Jean-François Féraud

Jean -François Feraud ( born April 17, 1725 in Marseille, † February 8, 1807 ) was a French linguist and lexicographer.

Life and work

Feraud was born as the son of a surgeon François Feraud and his wife Claire, born Beaumontwar. As a Jesuit he spent four years in Besançon, worked as an educator in Provence and after the dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1763 as a secular priest. The French Revolution forced him into exile in Nice and Ferrara. 1795 or 1798 he came back.

In 1756 he published together with Esprit Pezenas ( 1692-1776 ), a French translation of the English lexicon by Thomas Dyche († 1733), then a grammatical Dictionnaire de la langue française, 2 vols (Avignon / Paris 1761/1768/1772/1786 / 1788) and, as his sixties, his main work, the three-volume Dictionnaire critique de la langue française (Marseille 1787-1788, Tübingen 1994). For this purpose, 1963, by Pierre Larthomas found supplements and publishes 1987/1988.

Other works

• Nouveau dictionnaire universel des arts et des sciences, français, anglais et latin contenant la signification des mots de ces trois langues et des termes de chaque propres état ​​et professionnelle. Avec l' explication de tout ce que les arts et les sciences renferment traduit de l' anglais de Thomas Dyche, 2 vols, Avignon 1756
• Suplement you Dictionnaire critique de la langue française, 3 vols, Paris 1987-1988