Jules Feller

Jules Feller (* November 4, 1859 in Roubaix, † April 29, 1940 in Verviers ) was a Belgian linguist, Wallonist and Dialektologe.

Life and work

Feller was until his retirement in 1919 a high school teacher in Verviers. During this time, he conducted research in the Walloon dialectology, was concerned about the normalization of the Walloon orthography earned, worked with Auguste Jean Doutrepont and homelessness in the project of a Dictionnaire général de la langue Wallonne, which proved to be impracticable, and was with the same colleagues from In 1906 the Bulletin du Dictionnaire général de la langue wallonne out. In 1920 he was appointed to the newly founded Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique and got the same at the University of Liege chair of Walloon literature, which he occupied until 1930.

Works

  • Le patois Gaumet ( dialects du Luxembourg meridional ). I phonetique you Gaumet et du Walloon Compares, Liege 1897
  • Essai d' orthographe Wallonne, Liege 1900
  • Règles d' orthographe Wallonne adoptees par la Société de littérature liégeoise Wallonne, 2nd edition, 1905 Liège
  • Notes de philology Wallonne, Liege 1912 ( including publication list )
  • (Ed.) Oeuvres lyriques you poète Walloon Martin Lejeune, Liege 1923
  • Traité de versification Wallonne, Liege 1928
  • (Ed. with Jean Wisimus ) Anthology of poètes wallons VERVIETOIS, Verviers 1928
  • Français et dialectes chez les auteurs Belges du moyen âge, Tongeren 1931
  • Le Bethléem VERVIETOIS. Une survivance d' ancien théâtre de religieux marionettes, 3rd edition, 1931 Verviers
  • Toponymy de la commune de Jalhay, Liege 1936
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