Joseph Hanse

Joseph Hanse (born 5 October 1902 in Floreffe; † 7 November 1992 Boitsfort ) was a Belgian linguist, literary scholar and grammarian.

Life and work

Hanse received his doctorate in 1925 at the Catholic University of Louvain about Charles de Coster ( Lions 1928, Brussels in 1990 with preface by Raymond Trousson ) and was a high school teacher. From 1945 to 1973 he taught at his mother university. From 1956 he was a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises. From 1968 to 1991 he was chairman of the Conseil international de la langue française, which represents the interests of the entire French-speaking world. Hanse was honorary doctorates from the universities of Bologna ( 1989) and Paris XII Val de Marne ( 1990). He is an honorary citizen of the city Boitsfort.

His name is particularly associated with the Nouveau Dictionnaire des difficultés du français modern, which he in 1949 the first edition (Paris / Brussels, 759 pages ud T. Dictionnaire des difficultés grammaticales et lexicologiques ) and 1983 in highly enlarged edition (Paris, 1014 pages ) and published a standard work was (Paris, 1987, 1031 pages, 3 posthumous edition with Daniel Blampain, Louvain- la -Neuve 1994, 983 pages, 4th edition, 2000, 649 pages, 5th edition, 2005 Book and CD).

Other works

  • (Ed. together with Gustave Charlier ) Histoire illustrée des lettres françaises de Belgique, Brussels 1958
  • (Ed.) Charles De Coster, La Légende et les aventures héroïques, joyeuses et d' glorieuses Ulenspiegel et de Lamme Goedzak au pays de Flandres et ailleurs. Édition définitive, Brussels 1959, 2nd edition 1966
  • (Ed.) Maurice Maeterlinck, Poésies complètes. Serres chaudes. Quinze chansons. Neuf chansons de la Trentaine. Treize chansons de l' âge mûr. Édition définitive, Brussels 1965
  • (together with Albert Doppagne and Hélène Bourgeois - Gielen ) Chasse aux belgicismes, Brussels 1971, nouvelle chasse aux belgismes, Brussels 1974
  • (together with Albert Doppagne, André Goosse, Maurice Grevisse, Jacques Pohl and Léon Warnant ) Régionalismes lexicaux de Belgique. Premier inventaire, Brussels 1979
  • Orthographe et grammaire. Politique Nouvelle, Paris 1980
  • (Ed.) Charles De Coster, Légendes flamandes; édition critique, Brussels 1990
  • Naissance d'une littérature [ De Coster, Verhaeren, Linck Mater ], Brussels 1992
  • (together with Michèle Lenoble - Pinson, Willy Bal, Albert Doppagne, André Goosse, Jacques Pohl and Léon Warnant ) Belgicismes. Inventaire of particularités lexicales du français de Belgique, Louvain- La -Neuve 1994
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